I just got done listening to a program about C.S. Lewis on NPR 102.1 fm from the Cambridge Forum about the Screwtape Letters. It was pretty interesting, I missed hearing the woman-Kathleen something or other who spoke first but I did hear the thoughts of a Peter Craift (sp? author of The Shadowlands of C.S. Lewis among other works) and Armand Nicoli.
Craift spoke about how C.S. Lewis started off as an athiest for the first half of his life. He was learned in philosophy and studied Freud. He used the arguments and questions of Freud to justify his athiesm. Then, after his conversion, Lewis started taking Freuds questions, and started answering them with his own intuitive and spiritual answers.
While Freud reduced Love to Libido,
Lewis wrote about the state of "being in love" vs. Love in the more mature sense of the word. He said that being in love is what brings people together, but it doesn't last. What grows out of it, mature care and will for another person is what keeps people together. There are more reason's to stay married than "being in love."
Also another thing that Lewis was convinced of, one must shut out the worries of the past and future and encapsulate yourself in the present.
Nicoli spoke about Lewis as a philosopher and about his admirable qualities. The Good (love, charity), The True (intellect, reason, faith) and The Beautiful (heart, emotion, imagination) . C.S. Lewis, in the eyes of Nicoli had all of these qualities in spades.
Nicoli quotes someone saying that Lewis was the most thoroughly converted man he had ever met.
Supposedly Lewis was very good with using both sides of his brain- left and right minded- but this was only after his conversion. Before he converted his two side were in contradiction.
This was only part one of the program, I cannot say when the second part will be- I tried looking it up on www.npr.org but couldn't find it anywhere. So there is a little bit of an interesting something.
