The New Man by C.S. Lewis Doodle (BBC Talk 25, Mere Christianity, Bk 4, Chapter 3 & 11)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2020
- Transport yourself back to the 7th April, 1944, with a broadcast with C.S. Lewis' actual voice. This was his final broadcast to the nation in the very nervous days before D-Day. The nervousness was quite understandable, as success was by no means guaranteed, & the consequences of failure were so very dire. Lewis addresses time, & those things beyond it, & also the ‘New Man’, the birth of Christ's personality in you.
Some creative license has been taken with the introduction of a soundtrack of an actual Nazi German newsreel & the Churchill broadcast around that time in order to give you some context to the time period. This is the listed music that night that troops heard in Southern England gathering en masse for D-day, & what the armaments factory workers heard preparing vehicles & planes for the D-day invasion.
You can find the book here: www.amazon.com/Mere-Christiani...
This talk was turned into two separate chapters in book 4 of Mere Christianity’ - ‘Time & Beyond Time’ (Chp. 3) and ‘The New Man’ (Chp. 7). Some differences between the radio & book versions are in the comment section below, where Lewis clarifies, limits, & adds a few additional examples to the very short broadcast (but for a complete understanding read the complete chapters).
(0:21) Winston Churchill's full speech can be found here:
Audio - archive.org/details/Winston_C...
(3:25) Time & God was discussed by the ancient prophets (Gen. 21.33 "The Everlasting", Jer. 2.32 "Days without number", Dan. 7 "The Ancient of Days") & by the New Testament writers in the same Spirit (illustrated - Moses' Psalm 90.4 & 2 Pet. 3.8). Time was also discussed by the ancient Greek philosophers (illustrated), & by the Christian philosophers Augustine & Boethius. The modern philosophers culminated with the popular Idealist, McTaggart, who thought time was unreal, & therefore there can be no creation. This conception of time died with the fall of Idealism, the discovery that the universe did indeed have a beginning (this was a shock to the secular philosophic world) & that entropy gave time a direction. (Biologists now had a tight time limit for evolution to work). The physicist Einstein (illustrated) showed that time flow is affected by velocity. If one clock remains stationary while another is placed on a supersonic jet which flies around the world, they will no longer register the same passage of time.
Lewis' view was that: God stands outside of time; time is created & contingent; time is intimately connected to the mind; & time is intimately connected to eternity.
(5:48) Regarding the ‘New Man’, see Eph. 4.24 “& that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness, & true holiness. Col. 3.8 “Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds.” See also Col. 3.10, 2 Cor. 5.17, Rom. 7.18 & Rom. 6.6.
(6:52) “The United Nations” was what we know as "The Allies" today that joined in the fight against Nazi Germany - it was a ‘coalition of the willing’, not the supra-nation organisation we see today. (‘The United Nations’ as we know it today, was yet to be formed). See a 1944 poster - www.pinterest.nz/pin/41883483... .
(8:44) The Brécourt Manor Assault (6 June 1944) during the U.S. parachute assault of the Normandy coast in WW2 is often cited as a classic example of small-unit tactics & leadership in overcoming a larger enemy force. A small force ambushed a larger German artillery unit, permanently disabled the artillery firing on the D-Day beaches, & then withdrew before German reinforcements could arrive.
(9:38) For C.S. Lewis' views on popular evolution see this doodle: y2u.be/2GCWGyWCLTo
(14:18) Instead of thinking of all the things you would like to achieve or be, you instead submit them to God & let Him decide what it is He would like you to do, or walk towards.
(15:35) The crossroads charge was made by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, led by Dick Winters as shown in the series “Band of Brothers”. Finding themselves in a position which would eventually lead to them being outflanked, outgunned, & surrounded, they abandoned the position & charged across an open field. What seemed to be a suicidal charge, caught the Germans off guard. The SS unit & another Company fled, & were destroyed or captured in what turned out to be a turkey shoot. But the U.S. soldiers had first to ‘lose their lives’ & charge WW1 style across open ground, in order to save their unit.
(15:23) “Apparently the world is made that way. If Esau really got the pottage in return for his birthright (Gen. 25), then Esau was a lucky exception. You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first (Lewis, 'First & Second Things'). “Esau selfishly wanted God’s blessings, but he did not want God...” (The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Heb. 12).
Some differences between the radio and book versions are here in the notes below, where Lewis clarifies, limits, and adds a few additional examples to the very short broadcast (but for a complete understanding read the complete chapters - 4 & 7):
(1:35) On Time: “It is a very silly idea that in reading a book you must never "skip." All sensible people skip freely when they come to a chapter which they find is going to be no use to them. In this chapter I am going to talk about something which may be helpful to some readers, but which may seem to others merely an unnecessary complication. If you are one of the second sort of readers, then I advise you not to bother about this chapter at all but to turn on to the next. In the last chapter I had to touch on the subject of prayer, and while that is still fresh in your mind and my own, I should like to deal with a difficulty that some people find about the whole idea of prayer…”
(5:10) “I could think about Mary as if she were the only character in the book and for as long as I pleased, and the hours I spent in doing so would not appear in Mary's time (the time inside the story) at all…”
(5:16) “The way in which my illustration breaks down is this. In it the author gets out of one Time-series (that of the novel) only by going into another Time-series (the real one). But God, I believe, does not live in a Time-series at all. His life is not dribbled out moment by moment like ours: with Him it is, so to speak, still 1920 and already 1960. For His life is Himself…”
(5:25) “God is not hurried along in the Time-stream of this universe any more than an author is hurried along in the imaginary time of his own novel. He has infinite attention to spare for each one of us…”
(9:31) "They do not draw attention to themselves. You tend to think that you are being kind to them when they are really being kind to you. They love you more than other men do, but they need you less. (We must get over wanting to be needed: in some goodish people, specially women, that is the hardest of all temptations to resist.) They will usually seem to have a lot of time: you will wonder where it comes from."
(9:58) “Imaginative writers try sometimes to picture this next step-the "Superman" as they call him; but they usually only succeed in picturing someone a good deal nastier than man as we know him and then try to make up for that by sticking on extra legs or arms…”
(10:53) “In the last chapter I compared Christ's work of making New Men to the process of turning a horse into a winged creature. I used that extreme example in order to emphasise the point that it is not mere improvement but Transformation…”
(11:47) “Imagine a lot of people who have always lived in the dark. You come and try to describe to them what light is like. You might tell them that if they come into the light that same light would fall on them all and they would all reflect it and thus become what we call visible. Is it not quite possible that they would imagine that, since they were all receiving the same light, and all reacting to it in the same way (i.e., all reflecting it), they would all look alike? Whereas you and I know that the light will in fact bring out, or show up, how different they are…”
(12:31) “So far from killing the taste of the egg and the tripe and the cabbage, it actually brings it out. They do not show their real taste till you have added the salt. (Of course, as I warned you, this is not really a very good illustration, because you can, after all, kill the other tastes by putting in too much salt, whereas you cannot kill the taste of a human personality by putting in too much Christ. I am doing the best I can.)"
(12:37) "It is something like that with Christ and us. The more we get what we now call "ourselves" out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. There is so much of Him that millions and millions of "little Christs," all different, will still be too few to express Him fully. He made them all. He invented-as an author invents characters in a novel-all the different men that you and I were intended to be. In that sense our real selves are all waiting for us in Him. It is no good trying to "be myself" without Him.
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13:17) "The more I resist Him and try to live on my own, the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires. In fact what I so proudly call "Myself" becomes merely the meeting place for trains of events which I never started and which I cannot stop. What I call "My wishes" become merely the desires thrown up by my physical organism or pumped into me by other men's thoughts or even suggested to me by devils.
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"Eggs and alcohol and a good night's sleep will be the real origins of what I flatter myself by regarding as my own highly personal and discriminating decision to make love to [to woo, romance] the girl opposite to me in the railway carriage. Propaganda will be the real origin of what I regard as my own personal political ideals, I am not, in my natural state, nearly so much of a person as I like to believe: most of what I call "me" can be very easily explained. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own. "
"Sameness is to be found most among the most "natural" men, not among those who surrender to Christ. How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. But there must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it away "blindly" so to speak. Christ will indeed give you a real personality: but you must not go to Him for the sake of that. As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.
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(14:58) "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. "
(15:39) "Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.”
(15:44) "Again and again it has thought Christianity was dying, dying by persecutions from without or corruptions from within, by the rise of Mohammedanism, the rise of the physical sciences, the rise of great anti-Christian revolutionary movements. But every time the world has been disappointed. Its first disappointment was over the crucifixion. The Man came to life again. In a sense-and I quite realise how frightfully unfair it must seem to them-that has been happening ever since. They keep on killing the thing that He started: and each time, just as they are patting down the earth on its grave, they suddenly hear that it is still alive and has even broken out in some new place. No wonder they hate us."
I teach at a Christian school and am having my seniors finish out the school year, particularly in the midst of this distance-learning sitution, with Mere Christianity. I am sharing your videos with them as they read the chapters, and I am getting very positive feedback from students. Thank you for creating these! I love them and so appreciate the hard work that goes into them!
I remember reading this in Mere Christianity and being absolutely floored. When I first surrendered to Jesus, I didn't really understand what that entailed, only that he was the only way I could survive, and the passage "If any man would come after me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me," but when I got that book the pieces fell into place. Did it become easier? No, not really, but that's due to the old man continuing to rise up - with the help of the world and the devil. By God's grace I am now able to choose to "deny myself."
"look for yourself and you'll only get hatred, loneliness, despair, ruin."
What a quote.
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This 31 part presentation of Lewis is probably the single best use of TH-cam that I have ever seen. A book like Mere Christianity IMHO uniquely lends itself to this sort of audiovisual format, offering us a chance to actually ponder the questions posed and meditate on the assertions, the case for Christianity being made... The reader and the artwork (for the majority of non-original broadcasts) are absolutely superb... I appreciate the other accompanying audiovisual content as well, especially that which continually reminds us of the historical time, place and context from which Lewis was operating, which can help to explain vernacular that occasionally might sound anachronistic to 21st century audiences. Thank you.
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I guess that is the result of someone doing a project with REAL PASSION and therefore want to make it not just good but GREAT.
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Another good doodle. Off topic, I know that song at the end!
"Come cheer up, my lads! Tis glory we steer.
Our heads bearing high, we shall banish all fear!
To honor we call, we are free men, not slaves!
And who are as free as the sons of the waves?
Our hearts are our oaks, jolly tars are our men.
We'll always be ready, stead boys steady.
We'll fight and will conquer again and again!"
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Thank you so much for the series of this doodle artwork that makes this extraordinary book easier to digest for most people. I was only able to grasp the full content of it because of the help of this doodle artwork. I can't say my gratitude enough. Hope it continues to change people's life for decades to come!
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Love these videos you do! I had barely heard of CS Lewis until I came across these videos. Now all of his books are on my reading list.
That’s an awesome opening. Thank you so much for doodling all these talks! Even if I have a hard time comprehending the full meaning, Lewis’s lectures are always chock full of information to mull over.
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Thank you for taking the time to do this for us.. Your doodles are off the charts and spot on. Again I say thank you 🙏🏻
Keep these coming!
I'm taking a group of young people from my church through CS Lewis, and these videos have been invaluable!
Love the intro too 😎
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This is the best thing going on TH-cam. Thank you! I wait for these like my friends used to wait for the next episode of Melrose Place.
Nice! These doodles are my fave thing about TH-cam also :)
Once again, really well done. His analogies always hit me perfectly, it's so impressive.
Fantastic.... I heard this before years ago but really, only now with your wonderful illustrations helping me to listen properly did it really sink in. Thank-you so much!
thanks for your effort on this project; so nice to see a new CS Lewis doodle video, especially at these times..
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Thank you for another precious and wonderfully researched CS Lewis presentation - beautifully illuminating pious relief - in the face of Covid-19.
Thank you for all you do!! I work with teens who have focusing issues. They love your videos because they can focus and remember what they hear and see!
When you truly consider what C.S. Lewis said about God and prayer in the first part of the video, you will see a glimpse of how awesome God is, His “otherness”. “Infinite attention, infinite leisure for all of us. ”
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I can't help but think of virtue signalers on social media trying to appear good while being miserable
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"you will never make an impression on people if you don't stop thinking about making an impression on people" ... Would this statement be one of our deepest modern phycological challenges we have little ability to unpack given the impacts subtle messaging has in world wide web of thing's?
"Their very faces look different." :)
"When you give up your soul to Christ, you will for the first time, develop into a real person. All that you and I were intended to be. Our real selves, so to speak, are waiting for Him." (Paraphrased)
"Only when you allow yourself to be drawn into His light do you turn into a true person."
"Give up your self to find yourself. Lose your life, and you will save it."
Thank you from a Jewish friend!
You might enjoy this doodle: th-cam.com/video/DBOG9n3X4gw/w-d-xo.html
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Could you help me? I am trying to find a quote I believe I heard on your channel. It includes a few lines I remember. "You have rich colonies. We have none. ... You had the past. Let us have the future. ... You are weak. We are strong."
Winston Churchill's 11/16/1934 Speech About The Threat Of Nazi Germany:
"Many people think that the best way to escape war is to dwell upon its horrors and to imprint them vividly upon the minds of the younger generation. They flaunt the grisly photograph before their eyes. They fill their ears with tales of carnage. They dilate upon the ineptitude of generals and admirals. They denounce the crime as insensate folly of human strife. Now, all this teaching ought to be very useful in preventing us from attacking or invading any other country, if anyone outside a madhouse wished to do so, but how would it help us if we were attacked or invaded ourselves that is the question we have to ask.
Would the invaders consent to hear Lord Beaverbrook's [an advocate of appeasement] exposition, or listen to the impassioned appeals of Mr. Lloyd George [an advocate of Pacifism]? Would they agree to meet that famous South African, General Smuts [an advocate of British Neutrality], and have their inferiority complex removed in friendly, reasonable debate? I doubt it. I have borne responsibility for the safety of this country in grievous times. I gravely doubt it.
*But even if they did, I am not so sure we should convince them, and persuade them to go back quietly home. They might say, it seems to me, "you are rich; we are poor. You seem well fed; we are hungry. You have been victorious; we have been defeated. You have valuable colonies; we have none. You have your navy; where is ours? You have had the past; let us have the future." Above all, I fear they would say, "you are weak and we are strong."*
After all, my friends, only a few hours away by air there dwell a nation of nearly seventy millions of the most educated, industrious, scientific, disciplined people in the world, who are being taught from childhood to think of war as a glorious exercise and death in battle as the noblest fate for man.
There is a nation which has abandoned all its liberties in order to augment its collective strength. There is a nation which, with all its strength and virtue, is in the grip of a group of ruthless men, preaching a gospel of intolerance and racial pride, unrestrained by law, by parliament, or by public opinion. In that country all pacifist speeches, all morbid war books are forbidden or suppressed, and their authors rigorously imprisoned. From their new table of commandments they have omitted "thou shall not kill [murder]."
It is but twenty years since these neighbours of ours fought almost the whole world, and almost defeated them. Now they are rearming with the utmost speed, and ready to their hands is the new lamentable weapon of the air, against which our navy is no defence, and before which women and children, the weak and frail, the pacifist and the jingo, the warrior and the civilian, the front line trenches and the cottage home, all lie in equal and impartial peril.
Nay, worse still, for with the new weapon has come a new method, or rather has come back the most brutish method of ancient barbarism, namely, the possibility of compelling the submission of nations by terrorizing their civil population; and, worst of all, the more civilized the country is, the larger and more splendid its cities, the more intricate the structure of its civil and economic life, the more is it vulnerable and at the mercy of those who may make it their prey.
Now, these are facts, hard, grim, indisputable facts, and in the face of these facts, I ask again, what are we to do?"
Subtitled here: th-cam.com/video/k2xY2k26HFo/w-d-xo.html
Self note: 15:49
Oh yeah baby it's on like donkey Kong
Do you mean the zig-zagging to the top of the page on a black background like the arcade game?