6/22/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis psycheIn fact, Lewis states that the “central alteration” in his own version of the myth “consists in making Psyche’s palace invisible to normal, mortal eyes.” It is this very palace, redolent of heavenly mysteries, which Orual is unable to see until the very end of her life. Lewis, who was, after all, a Christian apologist. While Till We Have Faces is the retelling of a Pagan Myth, it is nevertheless possible to identify a number of Christian images in this masterpiece by C. In a similar manner, John Wesley, in his sermons 19 and 45 makes reference to spiritual senses which enable the Christian believer to perceive the realms of God which remain undetected by those who have not yet been born again of the Spirit of God. Lewis vividly contrasts Psyche’s ability to discern the things of God with her half-sister Orual’s inability to admit, even to herself, the existence of the invisible realm. For both of them, the things of God, although not visible to the natural eye, could nevertheless be seen with the eyes of faith. Both were Anglicans associated with Oxford University, but more importantly, both were Evangelicals who took the Christian faith seriously and used similar metaphors to describe faith. Lewis and John Wesley had much in common. Although they lived two centuries apart, C.
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