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“Defy the commandments of the natural law, and the race will perish in a few generations; co-operate with them, and the race will flourish for ages to come. That is the fact; whether we like it or not, the universe is made that way. This commandment is interesting because it specifically puts forward the moral law as the basis of the moral code: because God has made the world like this and will not alter it, therefore you must not worship your own fantasies, but pay allegiance to the truth. ”
The Mind of the Maker (1941)
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The Critical Role of Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
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Alexander F. C. Webster on One Word That Explains the Current Delusions
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on the Tyranny of Modern Freedom versus the Freedom of Jesus by Gillis J. Harp
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Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith
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on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Contours of Culture
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Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
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32.5 — September/October, 2019
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
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A review by James A. Altena
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Strategic Christians
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by Alan Jacobs
A review by Jesse Russell
32.3 — May/June, 2019
Shame & Redemption
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A review by Casey Chalk
32.4 — July/August, 2019
Then They Will Come for Us
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