Paul Davies as a popularizer of science

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Latest post in my blog on popular science:
Paul Davies as a popularizer of science
https://populscience.blogspot.com/2025/05/paul-davies-popularizer-of-science.html

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Thank you, Manuel, I always find your posts interesting and informative.

Errors creep into the work of theorizers especially when they allow a part to take the place of the whole. That is reductive by definition. I think human pride pushes the intellect undisciplined by humility in that direction.

Today is GK Chesterton’s birthday. I am giving thanks to God for his life without which we never may have had either Lewis or Tolkien as we have them today. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and Everlasting Man remain two of my favorite books. Not to mention his delightful Father Brown mysteries.

Blessings,

Ruby

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Thank you, Ruby!

And now a little Lewis content:

In the Spanish version of my blog, someone, moved by my reference to Boethius, commented that his “De consolatione philosophiae” was one of the ten most influential books for C.S. Lewis. He mentioned three others: MacDonald’s “Phantastes,” Virgilius “Aeneid” and Chesterton’s “The everlasting man.” (Neither of us knew then that today is Chesterton’s birthday, thank you again). He asked me for the other six books in Lewis’s list. I consulted Walter Hooper’s “C.S. Lewis companion and guide” and answered his question. :grinning:

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Manuel, what are the other 6 books Lewis mentions? And where in “C.S. Lewis companion and guide” is it (I have the book)? Thanks.

Dimitry

“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Love will last forever.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8)

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The other six books are: “The Temple” by George Herbert; “The Prelude” by William Wordsworth; “The idea of the Holy” by Rudolf Otto; “Life of Samuel Johnson” by James Boswell; “Descent into Hell” by Charles Williams; and “Theism and Humanism” by Arthur James Balfour.

The full list can be found by searching “Booklist” in the index, or in page 752 of Hooper’s book.

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Thank you, Manuel. Have you read any of these 10 works, and what is your opinion of them?

Dimitry

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I have read three of those six. I’ve read extracts of “The Prelude,” which is a long poem, and liked some a lot, others less. I liked “The life of Dr. Johnson” by Boswell, a very good biography. And “Descent into hell” is one of two novels by Charles Williams I like best. The other one is “All Hallows’ Eve.”

Of the other three, which I haven’t read, “The Temple” is a poem, “The idea of the Holy” by Rudolf Otto is a book on theology by a German author, and “Theism and Humanism” by Arthur James Balfour is a book on theology by a British Prime Minister.

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So I have read: Charles William’s All Hallows Eve, Desent into Hell and The Place of the Lion. These were part of a course on Fantasy Literature taught by Clyde (sp?) Kilby at Wheaton before he died. Also Phantastes and Lilith by George MacDonald.

The best book I ever read on holiness was The Holiness of God by R C Sproul.

Undragoned by Aslan

Elaine