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C. S. Lewis on Pleasure and Happiness

Huge pleasures ... sometimes (if we are careless) not even acknowledged or remembered, invade us from . Hence the unreasonable happiness which sometimes surprises a man at those very hours which ought, according to all objective rules, to have been the most miserable.C. S. Lewis, Present Concerns: A Compelling Collection of Timely, Journalistic Essays (New…
Stewart Goetz
April 15, 2011
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The Prospect of Christian Materialism

The idea that persons are or contain a nonphysical soul that is capable of existing after the destruction of the human body is customarily called “dualism.” Over the course of two millennia, the Christian tradition has been solidly in the dualist camp. Most Christians have affirmed the existence of the soul, its survival of death…