Originally published at: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ESCHATOLOGY OF C.S. LEWIS, PT. 3
In the last of the Narnian Chronicles, The Last Battle, Lewis accomplishes an extraordinary feat of writing by managing to give an outline of eschatology - or “end times” - that manages to avoid falling into any of the conventional “millenialisms”, while maintaining what might be called a strict, credal orthodoxy. In the novel, the last…
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Wonderful piece Dr. Farrell and thank you. Message read loud and clear, very needed in these times.
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Well now it looks like The Narnia Chronicles just made my list.
As the dau. of a Baptist Minister who was steeped in the Biblical Mindset it occurred to me that we have NO original writings from the Jesus Period…everything we “believed” came from what the Roman Gov’t gave us in 325 A.D. It now seems to me that a person’s Belief System, whatever that might be, is based upon which “book” he or she decides to “accept”? We have The Book of Mormon, The Koran, The Bible, The Urantia Book, various ancient works from India, etc. How does one decide which “book” to believe…if any?!
On the more optimistic note dr. Farrell. Maybe not all is lost, and millennialism may be already in retreat.
Trump just guested in Mar-a-Lago over 100 RC priests for prayer service and had mass and Eucharistic adoration opened by bishop Strickland. All in traditional Latin rite.
https://x.com/Sachinettiyil/status/1902757435426640011
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Where does one find an original copy of any of these books including the author(s) name?
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Complete with footnotes…
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Exactly…including The Bible!!! 
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