Progressing Toward What? C.S. Lewis & “The Abolition of Man”

By |2021-04-23T14:17:15-05:00August 7th, 2018|Categories: Books, Bradley Birzer's Abolition of Man Series, Bradley J. Birzer, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Conservatism|

Seventy-five years after the publication of C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man, it is safe to say that the scientists and technologists and state makers and educational institutions and corporations have continued on the deadly path of making man not in the image of God, as manifested in nature, but in the image of some [...]

C.S. Lewis & The Abolition of “Progress”

By |2021-04-23T16:10:36-05:00July 31st, 2018|Categories: Bradley Birzer's Abolition of Man Series, Bradley J. Birzer, C.S. Lewis, Christian Humanism, Ideology, Truth|

C.S. Lewis believed that immutable and timeless universal principles governed all persons throughout time and space. Though these principles would find manifestations particular to era, culture, and individual, the rules remained eternal. Additionally, these natural laws would always and everywhere be “self-evident.” Men might choose to ignore, distort, or mock them, but they could not [...]

“The Abolition of Man” at Age Seventy-Five

By |2021-04-26T12:58:08-05:00July 25th, 2018|Categories: Bradley Birzer's Abolition of Man Series, Bradley J. Birzer, C.S. Lewis, Christian Humanism, Conservatism, Reason, Truth, Virtue|

In the modern world, C.S. Lewis argues in "The Abolition of Man," we have trained the head and encouraged the heart, while neglecting the soul, the most important part of the person. As Lewis so scathingly puts it, we are producing men without chests. No one could rightly accuse C.S. Lewis, who was raised as [...]

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