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Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne
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I must admit that I found this book (reading each entry in each century as a devotional) to be a bit frustrating at times. I just couldn't always get what was being said. Maybe my imagination is not sufficient. I also struggled at times to match the God being talked about with the God of the Bible, though of course other times it was spot on.

My motivation for reading this was That C S Lewis liked this book. But of course he was a far greater scholar of Literature than I.

So some worthwhile material but not really for me :)
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John Bankston I'm aware of this title from C.S. Lewis too; specifically, "The Abolition of Man". Is that the Lewis source for you or another of his works?


Glenn Crouch That was a few years ago now, but I do believe so - though it may have been something from a CS Lewis Facebook group...


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Rob Lewis mentions Traherne in the 1961 preface to Screwtape, which is included in (at least) the 1996 Touchstone edition.


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