June Men's Meeting

We are planning on Friday, June 8, 6:00 p.m., at the Chattanooga Billiard Club, downtown.  Topic: chapters 7 & 8 of God in the Dock: "Religion and Science," and "The Laws of Nature."  Will confirm soon.

May meeting this Friday - "Transposition"

This just out to our e-mail list:

The topic of discussion at our next meeting of the C. S. Lewis Society of Chattanooga is Lewis' Pentecost, 1944, sermon entitled "Transposition."  The connection with Pentecost in the sermon is Lewis' use of the speaking of tongues on the day of Pentecost (Acts ii) as an example of this principle of "transposition."

What is transposition?  Lewis' friend Owen Barfield said, "It took me some time to realize that, whatever else it [transposition] is ..., [it] can be seen as a theory of imagination ... I am not sure whether there is anything like it anywhere else in Lewis' writing, but that little sermon "Transposition" amounts in my view to a theory of imagination, in which imagination is not mentioned." (Hooper, Companion, p. 574).  

Referring to the sermon, Walter Hooper writes, "Lewis was always at his best when writing about Heaven, and now he found a way of making his thoughts even clearer."  This imaginative principle described by Lewis was very important to him.  Hooper tells us in the introduction to The Weight of Glory, that Lewis had to leave the pulpit while preaching the sermon "under stress of emotion."  The Principal of the College had the congregation sing a hymn until Lewis was composed enough to come back to the pulpit and finish the sermon.

You'll notice, however, that I'm not really answering exactly what transposition is.  For that, you need to come to the meeting!  It will be at the Camp House, 1427 Williams Street, 7:00 p.m. - across the street in the craft room.  The feast of Pentecost is this Sunday and what better way to begin to celebrate the day than with a discussion of Lewis' Pentecost sermon.  We hope to see you there. 

P.S.: forgot to remind everyone that "Transposition" is the next chapter in the book we have been reading: The Weight of Glory.

A Horrid Men's meeting this Friday!

We will discuss 2 chapters from God in the Dock: "Myth Became Fact" and "Horrid Red Things."  We will meet at 6:00 p.m. at Chattanooga Billiards Club on Cherry Street.  See you there!

Lion Awakes Trailer!

A movie on the life of Lewis:

Men's meeting this Friday

6:00 p.m., Chattanooga Billiards Club, Cherry Street. We will be discussing the 3rd chapter of God in the Dock.

Audio of UTC Annual C. S. Lewis Lecture

Thanks to the efforts of the Poindexter Library, 18 of the past years' lectures have been recorded as mp3 files and soon there will be more. I will periodically upload lectures linked to this website, however, it is my hope this summer to develop a website specifically designed for the annual lecture and to have all the digitalized lectures available there. Last year's lecture by Peter Kreeft is available for listening here under "Recorded Lectures".

Update:
The 1996 lecture by Marjorie Mead can now be heard under the same link above for the Kreeft lecture. The 1998 lecture by Douglas Gresham may also be heard via the same link.

News for March

Just sent this out to the folks on our e-mail list:

Due to a scheduling glitch, it looks like we are not going to have a general meeting this month. I have, however, taken care of March through August, so this should not happen again.

March is going to be busy. On Thursday, the 8th, Dr. Ralph Wood will be giving the annual C. S. Lewis lecture at UTC. The lecture will be held in the Benwood Auditorium in the Engineering Building on the UTC campus. Admission is free. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. The title of his lecture: "Rum, Romanism, and the Sacramental Imagination: G. K. Chesterton as Defender of the Faith." Should be great.

Our men's group will meet at the Chattanooga Billiards Club on Cherry Street, Friday, 16 March (the evening before St. Patrick's) at 6:00 p.m. We'll be studying the 3rd chapter of God in the Dock.

The general meeting for March will be on Friday, 30 March, 7:00 p.m. at the craft room across the street from the Camp House on Williams Street. We will discuss the 2nd chapter of Lewis' book The Weight of Glory.

Men's Meeting on the 10th

Hope to have absolutely definite word tomorrow, but it looks like we men will be able to meet on Friday the 10th at the Chattanooga Billiard Club, downtown. 6:00 p.m. We'll be in the non-smoking dining room. 2nd chapter of God in the Dock! CBC

Update, Sat. p.m. Word is definite; we're on for this Friday night.