Sept 2023: Letters to Malcolm: 6-10
It all begins with an idea.
In September 2023, we continue our discussion of Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer. Our focus will be Letters 6-10. Here are passages we might discuss:
Letter 6: “This department of life, labelled “sacred,” can become an end in itself'; an idol that hides both God and my neighbours” (p30).
Letter 7: Petitionary prayer is “recommended to us both by precept and example. Our Lord in Gethsemane made a petitionary prayer (and did not get what he asked for)” (p35).
Arend Smilde's Lewisiana site has helpful notes for quotations and allusions in Letters to Malcolm.
Central Texas C. S. Lewis is a reading group that meets in Austin, Texas.
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Aug 2023: Letters to Malcolm: 1-5
It all begins with an idea.
In August 2023 we will discuss Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer. We will focus on the first five letters. Here's a description from The C. S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia, entry by Peter Schakel:
This is the last book Lewis wrote; written in April and May of 1963, it was published in 1964, several months after his death. He began a book on prayer in 1952 and worked at it in 1953, but he gave it up early in 1954. A decade later he thought of constructing the book as a series of letters to an imaginary correspondent. Once he found the right form, the book came easily and successfully—indeed many readers regard it as the best of his theological works.
The C. S. Lewis Foundation has a study guide to Letters to Malcolm.
Arend Smilde's Lewisiana site has notes for quotations and allusions in Letters to Malcolm.
Central Texas C. S. Lewis is a reading group that meets in Austin, Texas.
To request meeting details, please use our Contact Form. Thank you.