January 10, 2008

That's my Church, Steve-O (S)edition

I'm getting cracking on my Lenten reading list a little early. It's weird, for the only time in my life Mardi Gras is on my birthday this year, and Easter will be its earliest in the western churches on the whole Easter chart covering 100 years in the Book of Common Prayer.

Well now.

This year, I'm going for a mix of old things to return to as well as some new to me stuff.

1 & 2 C.S. Lewis The Four Loves, and Mere Christianity.

Somehow, I completely missed C.S. Lewis, both fiction as well as essays until a few years ago. I'm about three quarters through the Four Loves, and yes the LLamabutcher side of me snickered all the way through the "Eros" chapter every time he talked in hilarious British euphamisms. But I grooved on the friendship chapter--parts of it are sadly ridiculous, imho, but the central argument was very powerful.

More later.

Posted by Steve-O at January 10, 2008 12:16 PM | TrackBack
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It has been a number of years since I read any Lewis, though I remember enjoying The Great Divorce, Screwtape, and Mere Christianity when I was young. Of his fiction, I've read the Narnia series and an odd little book on the myth of Psyche called "Til We Have Faces." I also read a small book of his literary essays.

I should go through him again complete.

You should blog, him, Steve-O. I'd be interested to see your take on him.

I've never read the Four Loves, so I'm imagining his euphemisms for Eros being something along the lines of Chris Elliott's comments in Something About Mary -- the series of comments beginning, of course, with "cleaning the pipes."

Posted by: The Abbot at January 10, 2008 01:45 PM