Easter Morning

[rj_anderson]

C.S. Lewis, on the Resurrection:

Early in 1926 the hardest boiled of all the atheists I ever knew sat in my room on the other side of the fire and remarked that the evidence for the historicity of the Gospels was really surprisingly good. "Rum thing," he went on. "All that stuff of Frazer's about the Dying God. Rum thing. It almost looks as if it

Comments

[kizmet_42]

Indeed, Christ is Risen!

[olmue]

I love the traditional Russian Easter greeting which is, in fact, what you just said. Christ is risen! says one. Indeed He is! is the answer. In whatever language you wish.

Happy Easter!

[carbonelle]

Our pastor is a very late-comer to the faith, and so he tells the story of his first Easter service:

"People were coming up to me all day, smiling and saying, "Christ is risen!" and I was all, 'Uh, yeah, he sure is.' But I figured it out eventually..."

[sartorias]

Exultate Deo!

Lovely post, thank you.

[snowrabbitses]

CS Lewis has such a beautifully lucid way of writing that I never see it as written; it's as if he's speaking.

Wonderful entry to celebrate today, thank you for sharing.

[fpb]

Some of his work actually did begin as radio broadcasts (Mere Christianity) or lectures (A preface to Paradise Lost, The Abolition of Man, much of his scholarly stuff). He also preached regularly at University churches, and a number of his essays are really transcribed sermons (The Inner Ring, The Weight of Glory, etc.). I believe that it is possible to buy an audio-book of Mere Christianity featuring the original broadcast version.

[snowrabbitses]

Thank you for letting me know! I'm going to see what the public library has on tape, and BBC re-releases things from their archives occasionally so I'll poke around there too. I'd love to hear him speaking any of his work.

[fpb]

He is risen indeed, alleluia, alleluia. And what converted me was the experience of reading the New Testament as an already practised historian, with wide (and constantly increasing) experience of reading ancient texts and distinguishing between historical and mythical. Once you learn the difference, it is impossible not to realize that the whole New Testament is as historical as it claims to be. And then you are left with the stark choice: either disbelieve real, historical eyewitness, or else believe in miracles and a Resurrection from the dead. End of story.