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2.25.2007

Last Night of the World

I read a great essay by C. S. Lewis on the subject of the second coming of Christ. How it is a doctrine that can embarass some. He gets at the meaning of it in a practical way. In a nutshell: basically he says Jesus is saying to stay awake in the moment. Practically this is all we can take from the doctrine. The end of the world is something beyond our thinking (time elements regarding it alone are beyond us), but practically Jesus is saying stay awake in the moment, and stay awake to the vertical. The doctrine of the second coming is to make us eschatological.

Lewis also introduces scale in his discussion. Being awake to the anytime end of the world puts things in proper perspective for a person staying awake in the moment and staying awake to what is above.

I forget the essay... Last Night of the World, or something like that. It may have been in the compilation book of his 'A Mind Awake'...

Posted by c.t. at 16:26