The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
- The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses is a compilation of essays on Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
Chapter list and descriptions For the 1980 McMillan Publishing Company's revised and expanded paperback edition.
*Introduction by Walter Hooper, Editor
*Preface to the original edition by C. S. Lewis: "This book contains a selection of the too numerous addresses which I was induced to give during the late war and the years that immediately followed it."
# "The Weight of Glory" - First given at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, June 8th, 1941
# "Learning in War-Time" - Given at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, October 22, 1939
#"Why I am not a Pacifist" - Talk, "given to a pacifist society at Oxford sometime in 1940", from the introduction.
#"Transposition" - Given in the Chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford, May 28th, 1944.
# "Is Theology Poetry?" - Presented to the Oxford University Socratic Club, November 6th 1944
# "The Inner Ring" - This was the "Commemoration Oration" given at King's College, University of London, December 14, 1944
#"Membership" - Read to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius, Oxford, February 10, 1945
# "On Forgiveness" - Written for Father Patrick Kevin Irwin (1907-1965) and sent to him, August 28, 1947. First Published in "Fern-seed and Elephants and Other Essays on Christianity" by C. S. Lewis.
# "A Slip of the Tongue" - Given at the Chapel of Magdalene College, Cambridge, January 29, 1956. This was the last sermon preached by C. S. Lewis.
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