Praeparatio Evangelica—or Daemonica? C. S. Lewis and Anders Nygren on Spiritual Longing

Lepojärvi, Jason

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“… 8. This is a conscious rejection of the idea popularized by his contemporary, Anders Nygren, that human love is pure need and derogatively so. See Meilaender (2003), 55–56, 122–123; Lepojärvi (2015, forthcoming). …”

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Worship, veneration, and idolatry: observations from C. S. Lewis

Lepojärvi¹

2014

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What does it mean to love God ‘more’ than people? This article engages the difficulty of defining worship, veneration, and idolatry, by looking at C. S. Lewis's observations on the subject. Lewis offers helpful nudges towards more than a merely conceptual distinction, but he does not consistently apply his love principles to cover human love for the saints (Mary in particular). The article concludes with eight follow-up questions that benefit philosophers and theologians alike as they seek to formulate more focused definitions of worship, veneration, and idolatry.

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Worship, veneration, and idolatry: observations from C. S. Lewis

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2014

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‘It's all in Plato’: Platonism, Cambridge Platonism, and C.S. Lewis

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2021

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In 1924 C.S. Lewis began work on a doctoral dissertation, the subject of which was to be the Cambridge Platonist Henry More (1614–1687). A number of scholars gloss this important moment in Lewis's intellectual and spiritual journey, and some offer penetrating, if cursory, analysis of how Lewis's close reading of More would have helped to shape the young scholar's philosophical and theological imagination. These important contributions notwithstanding, the influence of More and, by extension, the Platonic tradition longue durée are not properly understood in Lewis scholarship. This article argues that Cambridge Platonism and Henry More in particular were a crucial part of Lewis's initiation into, and appropriation of, the Platonic tradition. The tradition of Platonism to which the Cambridge Platonists introduced Lewis shaped the way he thought about a number of topics central to his own moral, philosophical, and religious outlook, including the relationship between the moral and the numinous, and imagination and reality, but also pneumatology, angelology, and his understanding of the supernatural, miracles, prophetic wisdom, and, especially, the nature of love.

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Praeparatio Evangelica—or Daemonica? C. S. Lewis and Anders Nygren on Spiritual Longing

Cited by 2 publications

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Worship, veneration, and idolatry: observations from C. S. Lewis

Worship, veneration, and idolatry: observations from C. S. Lewis

‘It's all in Plato’: Platonism, Cambridge Platonism, and C.S. Lewis

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