C.S. Lewis, one of the foremost apologists of the 20th century, died on November 22, 1963. His passing was, of course, “overtaken by events” which overshadowed his passing. I mentioned this in a lesson Sunday in which I quoted Lewis’ famous quip that there are two equal and opposite errors about Satan (one being to totally disbelieve, the other to become overly consumed by him – and that he is equally pleased with either error). Ferrell elaborates on Lewis’ life and death here.
Recently I have been reading C. S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath. He says that Warnie found his brother dead at the foot of his bed at 5:30 p.m. [in Oxford], “Friday, 22 November 1963.” Then comes this paragraph:
At that same time, President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade left Dallas’s Love Field Airport, beginning its journey downtown. An hour later, Kennedy was fatally wounded by a sniper. He was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Media reports of Lewis’s death were completely overshadowed by the substantially more significant tragedy that unfolded that day in Dallas.
C. S. Lewis was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry, Oxford after a private, and very small service. Warnie chose a phrase from a Shakespearean calendar that was in their home back in Belfast at the time of their mother’s death in August 1908: “Men must endure…
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