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Book 22: Out of the Silent Planet, CS Lewis. 160pp
On recommendation from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nuranar, I scrounged around for the Space Trilogy and found it a couple months back or so.
On a writing style level, I think it could have been a bit better. Looking purely at the story itself, though, I thought it was excellent, and presented a myriad of very, very deep and profound themes that are worth reflecting on. I have no doubt I'll read it again. The first time I read a book I consume it; the second time, already knowing the story, I can begin to actually absorb it. I'm looking forward to the next two books.
And because this is a bit overdue,
Chapter 5: John Wycliffe
I think what impressed me most about this chapter was that men could not kill John Wycliffe, much as they tried over and again. Only when his work was finished did God decide when Wycliffe would die.
This quote also struck me: By the decree of the Council of Constance, more than forty years after his death his bones were exhumed and publicly burned, and the ashes were thrown into a neighboring brook. "This brook," says an old writer, "hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."-- T. Fuller, Church History of Britain, b. 4, sec. 2, par. 54. Little did his enemies realize the significance of their malicious act.
It was through the writings of Wycliffe that John Huss, of Bohemia, was led to renounce many of the errors of Romanism and to enter upon the work of reform. Thus in these two countries, so widely separated, the seed of truth was sown. From Bohemia the work extended to other lands. The minds of men were directed to the long-forgotten word of God. A divine hand was preparing the way for the Great Reformation.
On recommendation from
nuranar, I scrounged around for the Space Trilogy and found it a couple months back or so.On a writing style level, I think it could have been a bit better. Looking purely at the story itself, though, I thought it was excellent, and presented a myriad of very, very deep and profound themes that are worth reflecting on. I have no doubt I'll read it again. The first time I read a book I consume it; the second time, already knowing the story, I can begin to actually absorb it. I'm looking forward to the next two books.
And because this is a bit overdue,
Chapter 5: John Wycliffe
I think what impressed me most about this chapter was that men could not kill John Wycliffe, much as they tried over and again. Only when his work was finished did God decide when Wycliffe would die.
This quote also struck me: By the decree of the Council of Constance, more than forty years after his death his bones were exhumed and publicly burned, and the ashes were thrown into a neighboring brook. "This brook," says an old writer, "hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."-- T. Fuller, Church History of Britain, b. 4, sec. 2, par. 54. Little did his enemies realize the significance of their malicious act.
It was through the writings of Wycliffe that John Huss, of Bohemia, was led to renounce many of the errors of Romanism and to enter upon the work of reform. Thus in these two countries, so widely separated, the seed of truth was sown. From Bohemia the work extended to other lands. The minds of men were directed to the long-forgotten word of God. A divine hand was preparing the way for the Great Reformation.
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I'm hoping to tackle Perelandra by next week, if not before. I have a house to clean and an alteration project (I'd groan, but I'm getting paid for it) tomorrow...