The Four Loves ('Storge' or 'Affection') by C.S. Lewis Doodle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2017
- This is an illustration of C.S Lewis’ talk about the first of the four loves - 'Storge' or 'Affection'. Notes below...
Originally 'The Four Loves' series was recorded by Lewis in London in 1958, prepared as 10 talks to air on the ‘Protestant Hour’ on American radio. I believe the first two talks addressed 'Storge'. The second talk begins at 11:00, if you need smaller, bite-sized pieces. You can find my transcript of this talk here, as it is not available on the web for some reason: drive.google.com/file/d/0B8lk...
You can purchase Lewis' original radio broadcasts here: www.amazon.com/The-Four-Loves...
This was later turned into a larger book with more detail (with quite different examples), which you can find here: www.amazon.com/Four-Loves-C-S...
(1:55) “When we blame a man for being 'a mere animal', we mean not that he displays animal characteristics (we all do), but that he displays these, and only these, on occasions where the specifically human was demanded. When we call a man 'brutal' we usually mean that he commits cruelties impossible to most real brutes; they're not clever enough” (‘The Four Loves’, Chapter 3).
(9:20) Lewis: “In the nineteenth century some people thought that monogamous family life would automatically make them holy and happy; the savage anti-domestic literature of modern times - the Samuel Butlers, the Gosses, the Shaws - delivered the answer…The ‘debunkers’ may have been wrong about principles and may have forgotten the maxim abusus non tollit usum [the abuse of something does not abolish its use]: but in both cases they were pretty right about matters of fact [i.e. as to how domestic affections can become depraved]" (Lewis essay, ‘The Sermon and the Lunch’).
(9:25) Anthony Trollope wrote the Chronicles of Barsetshire of which ‘Framley Parsonage’ (1861) deals with ambition, and ‘Doctor Thorne’ (1858) with snobbery. Another book by Trollope, ‘The Way We Live Now’ (1875), deals with gambling. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote 'Vanity Fair' (1847-8). George Elliot (a.k.a. Mary Anne Evans) wrote seven novels, including 'Adam Bede' (1859), 'The Mill on the Floss' (1860), 'Silas Marner' (1861), and 'Middlemarch' (1871-72), most of which are set in provincial England.
(10:58) ‘Every one of Storge’s characteristics is ambivalent’, which means they can be turned to either evil or good.
(11:09) The larger quote from Butler is here. Pontifex: “He [his son, Ernest] is not fond of me, I’m sure he is not. He ought to be after all the trouble I have taken with him, but he is ungrateful and selfish. It is an unnatural thing for a boy not to be fond of his own father. If he was fond of me I should be fond of him, but I cannot like a son who, I am sure, dislikes me. He shrinks out of my way whenever he sees me coming near him. He will not stay five minutes in the same room with me if he can help it. He is deceitful. He would not want to hide himself away so much if he were not deceitful".
"I wish he was not so fond of music, it will interfere with his Latin and Greek. I will stop it as much as I can. Why, when he was translating Livy [the ancient author of 'The History of Rome and the Roman People'] the other day, he slipped out Handel’s name in mistake for Hannibal’s, and his mother tells me he knows half the tunes in the ‘Messiah’ by heart. What should a boy of his age know about the ‘Messiah’? If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I’m very sure,” etc., etc."
“At other times, when not quite well, Pontifex would have his sons in for the fun of shaking his will at them. He would in his imagination cut them all out one after another and leave his money to found almshouses, till at last he was obliged to put them back, so that he might have the pleasure of cutting them out again the next time he was in a passion” (Samuel Butler, ‘The Way of All Flesh’).
(11:35) As a child Ernest was very late in being able to sound a hard “c” or “k,” and, instead of saying “Come,” he said “Tum”, and for this error he was beaten by his bad tempered father.
(13:14) ‘Trenchantly’ means vigorously, energetically or cuttingly.
(23:14) Lewis: “Imagine three men who go to war. One has the ordinary natural fear of danger that any man has and he subdues it by moral effort and becomes a brave man. Let us suppose that the other two have, as a result of things in their sub-consciousness, exaggerated, irrational fears, which no amount of moral effort can do anything about. Now suppose that a psychoanalyst comes along and cures these two: that is, he puts them both back in the position of the first man. Well it is just then that the psychoanalytical problem is over and the moral problem begins..." ('Mere Christianity', Book 3, ‘Morality and Psychoanalysis’).
Here's my transcript of this radio talk: drive.google.com/file/d/0B8lkIorOqTUySlloZUtRT2hMMXM/view?usp=sharing
Using Lewis's own voice makes this graphic even more amazing. Thank you!
It has been my experience (age 65 speaking) that an incapacity to love in any one of the four ways generally means an incapacity to love in ALL four ways. I am a Christian, and I consider it to be an illustration of God's grace to me that the fact that I grew up in a TOTALLY loveless house (it was NEVER a home) did not scar me to the point of rendering me incapable of philia, eros or agape. I no longer have a family of any kind -- I never married or had children -- other than a bottomlessly sweet lady of 92 whom I call my "mother-in-love", because, for thirty-five years, she has been everything to me that a mother would or could have been. My stepmother, now deceased, was the same, even though she didn't enter my life until I was twenty-nine. I share Lewis' view that agape is the form of love in which our divine spark is the most evident. I try to nurture it by watching people in public places like coffee shops -- a mother's awed delight as she plays with her baby, a little girl throwing her arms around her father's neck, two lovers teasing and laughing with one another -- and letting myself rejoice in their happiness. I firmly believe that, as long as you can take pleasure in the sight of other people's joy, you are not a lost soul.
So that's what C.S. Lewis sounds like.
We even got a bit of his humor too.
As a visual leaner, combining Lewis’ audio teaching with your visual creations have helped me grasp the 4 loves so much better. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The Four Loves allowed me to see God again. I will never forget how this book changed my mind and helped me to understand Christianity and Love in a deeper way.
Well done! This is like a chiropractic adjustment for the soul.
It does feel that way!! :D
I am stealing this turn of phrase. I hope you don't mind.
Your channel is my favorite on TH-cam, I love C.S. Lewis but I have such a problem with reading comprehension. I wouldn't be able to appreciate this fully without your amazing artwork, thank you!
It’s powerful how Lewis addresses “goodness”…(8:00-10:00) humanly defined vs spiritually. These videos are wonderful! Great work! Thank you!!
I- wow😢
I think my big take away is that this love, and the other type of love, aren’t love at all unless they submit to God. That’s so cool 🙌🏾
Thank you, read the book and there were definitely some parts of it I didn’t fully grasp so this video helped fill in the missing pieces!
Wowww this is so eye opening....I'm 20 and I feel really uninformed about life now..
This is such an amazing video! I can’t believe we still have Lewis’ radio broadcasts. Your illustrations along side the narration make it that much better!
Had so much trouble listening to the audio of this book and even reading the book. I didnt understand it much. I decided to give this video a try and man did it work! Thank you so much! This helped me really understand exactly what Lewis was saying. It kept me awake too which I was struggling with while reading the book and listening to the audio on its on! THANK YOU
Wonderful. The drawings really bring the text alive.
Thank you so,so, much for this and of course it's the great man's very own voice.
Beautiful from beginning to end. Wow.
Perfect for Mothers day. Thank you for sharing :)
The visual aids definitely helped in deciphering what C.S Lewis said. Thank you, to the maker of this video, in helping to make it understandable for the simpletons (ME) of the world.
Just recently discovered this channel. Quickly it is become a favorite. Better late than never. Thank you for sharing Lewis and your talents with us. I believe he would approve🙂
My daughter (7yo) and I agree that this is really good!
Thank you this great programme. It gets us right into Jack's talks and help with those great illustrations.God bless you.
Finally !!!!! I've waited since I found this channel for you to do one from The Four Loves. I fell in love with Lewis through that book.
Like, thank you. I read the book about the four loves, but this just opened a new light to me. Thank you so much!
This is such a wonderful video, I'm so happy I found it. THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT!!
Great great great video, thank you
I love C.S. Lewis and really love all the doodle vids! Thanks for doing them!
Lol, the ending song that you chose!
Talented, funny and enlightening!
Thank you for this
Absolutely brilliant
E X C E L L E N T lesson - and illustration! Many thanks for this proper biblical / psychological teaching. [Edit: Tyop]
This was amazing. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to listening to the other loves. I agree with @crystal Hurd using Lewis's voice add much more feeling to the doodling. God Bless
keep up the awesome work!!! thank you so much!!
I feel storge, philia and agape towards you. I was hoping the four loves would be your next project. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks mate! Isn't Lewis' understanding amazing?
@@CSLewisDoodle love this as well been meaning to get into Lewis’s apologetics works and your work is amazing .
This is healing!
Amazing work, as always.
Genius, pure genius
Very well done!
amazing, thank you for this video
simply amazing work!!!
Love these videos! Keep up the great work!
this is incredible, thanks SO much
This is so great. I dunno that I ever would've listened to this is not for your art.
I was one of the "debunkers" the book is referring to. Love is subjective, relative to an individual -- an illusion. For it objectively does not exist in the naturalistic worldview.
This is indeed his voice!
Is this Lewis's voice reading it?? I've been reading him for almost 30 years, never before heard his voice 😀
Sure is.
awesome video!
Beautiful work, friend :-)
I love the color coding of the 4 loves
Thank you so much for this video. The four loves is one of my favorite books by C. S. Lewis.
Not that you need recommendations, for you do so well, might I suggest a video on Chapter 9 of Miracles : "A chapter not strictly necessary"
Dead on.
Does anyone know if this word is commonly used in the Greek language? And how prevalent was it in Ancient Greek?
Here is the word frequency of storge in classical Greek: www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/wordfreq?lang=greek&lookup=storge%2Fw
@@CSLewisDoodle Thank you!
20:54 I see what you did there
"But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who has committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack an Death itself would start working backwards."
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The rudeness of parents to their children:
13:48
Color!