About 25 years before writing Till We Have Faces, an unconverted C.S. Lewis met with J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson for dinner in his rooms at Magdalen College, followed by a stroll together on Addison’s Walk. He recounted this conversation later in a letter to Arthur Greeves. Tolkien and Dyson had helped Lewis to see […]
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Memoria College tutor Thomas Cothran, writing at Eclectic Orthodoxy, about St. Thomas Aquinas’ position on the problem of predestination: God causes all of our actions, including our acts of choosing. He does not merely give mankind the power of choice, he causes the act of choosing itself. We are mere instruments of God’s will. […]