11/22/2012

November 22: C.S. Lewis

November 22 saw the passing of C.S. Lewis in 1963. The "Narnia" author also wrote an essay called "The World's Last Night". In it he concedes Matthew 24:34 ("Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until these things [the apocalypse] take place") as "the most embarrassing verse in the Bible." Yet Lewis affirms Jesus' personal lack of knowledge of the end of the world as a sort of proof of his historical authenticity, and affirms the doctrine of a mysterious and unpredictable Second Coming as "the medicine our condition especially needs."