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I don't know what it means except what it "seems to say" which is that a transcendent love for God makes other losses tolerable. (The fact that the article's author ascribes the "hidden meeting" of Lewis' epigram with Lewis' disagreement with Augustine seems to require an understanding of what Augustine says and for me that research is "a bridge too far.")
I find many marvelous insights in Lewis but he was a security oriented person.
If I recall correctly, he even took pleasure in walking the perimeter of his land, pistol (rifle?) in hand, to enact a sort of semisymbolic "me Tarzan, you Jane" selfdefensiveness. (In Buddhism there is a fundamental disposition shift that moves beyond territorialty which flies in the face of Judeo/Christianity's near obsession with territoriality.)
I do not argue against self defense, but I think the "full" Christian Realization" has enabled believers to welcome martyrdom, an attitude that requires a kind of "devil may care" attitude about protecting one's "entitlements."
The Last Time Christians Had Balls They Believed In Martyrdom
http://paxonbothhouses.
Wishing you well.
Pax/Shalom/Salaam
Alan
On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:33 AM Lawrence Jay Buchalter wrote:
What does this really mean?
Larry
http://www.essentialcslewis.com/2016/09/06/ccslq-28-happines s-depend-on/
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