Tag Archives: Galatians 2:20

The Grand Miracle, Or Easter in Everyday Life with C.S. Lewis (75th Anniversary)

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

On this Holy week near the close of WWII, C.S. Lewis preached a sermon called “The Grand Miracle” at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. The talk was published two weeks later in The Guardian–following the last episode … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged Christmas, dive, Easter, Galatians 2:20, Miracles, self-death, spiritual theology, St. Jude on the Hill, surrender, The Grand Miracle, The Great Divorce, The Guardian, theology | 10 Comments

The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce” (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Last year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own blog-hoard or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, controversy, Dante, Galatians 2:20, George MacDonald, heaven, hell, Love Wins, Narnia, Rob Bell, self-death, The Great Divorce, The Last Battle, The Problem of Pain, theology | 49 Comments

The Grand Miracle, Or Easter in Everyday Life

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce” (Feature Friday)

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

It’s difficult to know why, but this post has remained among the most popular for the last few months. For the past few years I have been trying to encourage a recovery of The Great Divorce. It is a great work, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Friday, Original Research | Tagged C.S. Lewis, controversy, Dante, Galatians 2:20, George MacDonald, heaven, hell, Love Wins, Narnia, Rob Bell, self-death, The Great Divorce, The Last Battle, The Problem of Pain, theology | 39 Comments

The Haunting Death: Lewis, Buechner, and Me on the Loss of my Parents

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

On Friday, February 12th, I watched my mother finally succumb to cancer. She was only 61. In her death she taught me a great deal about how to live. You can read a brief story of her life here. I am now … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Reviews | Tagged Bebb, C.S. Lewis, Frederick Buechner, Galatians 2:20, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Jane Austin, Lemony Snicket, Letters to an America Lady, Lois Lowry, orphan literature, Prince Caspian, The Giver, The Magician's Nephew, The Willoughbys, Watchman Nee | 31 Comments

The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce”

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

This is dangerous territory–partly because some have trumbled into the “real” meaning of this or that book and caused an awful mess. When read this way the Bible most especially becomes secret code for everything from American foreign policy to the … Continue reading →

The Grand Miracle, Or Easter in Everyday Life (70th Anniversary)

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

On this week 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis preached a sermon called “The Grand Miracle” at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. The talk was published two weeks later in The Guardian–following the last episode of The Great Divorce … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Christmas, dive, Easter, Galatians 2:20, Χριστὸς ἀνέστη, Miracles, self-death, spiritual theology, St. Jude on the Hill, surrender, The Grand Miracle, The Guardian, theology | 12 Comments

“Into the Region of Awe” by David C. Downing: A Review

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

For some time I have suspected that David Downing was on to something here. Part of what I’m doing in researching C.S. Lewis is to see what is at the core of who he was as a Christian—not just what … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Christian spirituality, david downing, Galatians 2:20, Into the Region of Awe, mysticism, Planets in Peril, Ransom Trilogy, religion, self-death, The Last Battle, theology, Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 20 Comments

Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism: A Confessional Review

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

I read Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism quite by accident, and at a time when I should have been attending to other matters—in particular, getting assignments back to my students in a timely manner. I asked Zondervan for … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged american fundamentalism, christianity and culture, Confessional Evangelical, evangelical, evangelical controversy, Fundamentalism, Galatians 2:20, Generic Evangelicalism, John G. Stackhouse, Kevin T. Bauder, Posconservative Evangelicalism, R. Albert Mohler, Regent College, Roger E. Olson, theology | 31 Comments

The Haunting Death: Lewis, Buechner, and Me on the Loss of a Parent

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

Lewis in Letters I’ve read, now, about 200 pages of Lewis’ letters. This is just a small slice of the 2000 pages of his letters I have in my bookshelves. But it is enough to begin to see patterns and … Continue reading →