I set about to write on the major premises of Christianity. I sat down and wrote them down and then put them in logical order. You’d have to grasp the first to get to the next in other words. When I did this and began writing the first, I went back and placed one before it and wrote on it. Finally it struck me. I was reinventing the wheel.
A very gifted writer did just this already. Everything I was writing was obviously already hit by him. So what could I do? I decided I’d re-read what he wrote and offer a synopsis of what I find there along with my own comments and ideas. I couldn’t see the value in rewriting it all from scratch. I think there is value, however, in putting it in my own paraphrasing for simplicity’s sake. If you’d rather circumvent my “cliff’s notation” of the book, I recommend to you Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I’m mostly wading through it paragraph by paragraph and expounding his ideas. It will look a lot like a cliff’s note on your favorite novel.
I hope it will help make this fabulous philosophical work more accessible while providing a forum for discussion on it. I’ll go chapter by chapter so we can discuss it as we go. The project may be slow-going for a while. I have several projects I work on – some are not internet projects! I’ll post them all under philosophy. If something helps you understand something you didn’t understand, please let me know. If you think I treat something unfairly, let me know. If you think I did an all around sucky job, let me know. Just do it with love, okay? Also, if you say I suck, I expect your analysis on the subject. It’s only fair.