{"id":4991,"date":"2018-06-18T15:57:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T23:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T23:57:29","slug":"kicking-off-the-c-s-lewis-summer-reading-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/06\/18\/kicking-off-the-c-s-lewis-summer-reading-project","title":{"rendered":"Kicking off the C. S. Lewis Summer Reading Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blog readers: Chi Alpha @ Stanford is engaging in our annual summer reading project. As we read through three books by C. S. Lewis, I\u2019ll post my thoughts here (which will largely consist of excerpts I found insightful). They are all tagged summer-reading-project-2018<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the first week of our summer reading project. I\u2019ll be sending out reminders to read along with some commentary on the readings throughout the summer. Remember that the schedule is online<\/a> (you can print it out and use it as a bookmark if you find that helpful).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This week we\u2019re reading the first two chapters of The Abolition of Man<\/em> by C.S. Lewis: \u201cMen Without Chests\u201d and \u201cThe Way\u201d <\/span>(pages 693\u2013717 in the anthology).  If you don\u2019t have a copy of the book yet, you can hear it entertainingly presented on the C.S. Lewis Doodle YouTube channel<\/a> (not all of our readings are on this channel, but some will be).<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tX5e6eSkaMc<\/a><\/p>\n

I believe this is one of Lewis\u2019s most important books, and I am not alone in my opinion. In The Narnian, <\/em>Alan Jacobs (himself an excellent essayist) calls The Abolition of Man<\/i> the \u201cmost profound of Lewis\u2019s cultural critiques\u201d (page 174).<\/p>\n

At first you may wonder why you are reading about a British high school textbook from 1939, but as you progress into the chapter you\u2019ll discover that Lewis is pointing out a profound error in thinking which has become even more widespread today. I encourage you to persevere; the payoff is worth it. The last four sentences of the first chapter are among the most powerful I have read, and you will find that the second chapter seems to be addressed to your contemporaries at Stanford.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blog readers: Chi Alpha @ Stanford is engaging in our annual summer reading project. As we read through three books by C. S. Lewis, I\u2019ll post my thoughts here (which will largely consist of excerpts I found insightful). They are all tagged summer-reading-project-2018. This is the first week of our summer reading project. I\u2019ll be sending out \u2026 Continue reading \u201cKicking off the C. S. Lewis Summer Reading Project\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Kicking off the C. S. Lewis Summer Reading Project: The Abolition of Man","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[230,229,231],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-summer-reading-project-2018","tag-the-abolition-of-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}