{"id":4975,"date":"2013-11-22T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2013-11-22T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:18:33","slug":"fitty-year-ago-november-22-1963-lewis-kennedy-huxley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/fitty-year-ago-november-22-1963-lewis-kennedy-huxley\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitty Year Ago | November 22, 1963 | Lewis, Kennedy, Huxley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Great Men Died That Day:<br \/>\nC.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and JFK<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122-090916.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122-090916.jpg\" alt=\"20131122-090916.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty years ago, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. In 1982, philosophy professor Peter Kreeft imagined the three of them in conversation after their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Positioning Lewis as a proponent of ancient Western theism, Kennedy as a modern Western humanist, and Huxley as an ancient Eastern pantheist, Kreeft wrote a conversational book entitled Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis &#038; Aldous Huxley. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122-091111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122-091111.jpg\" alt=\"20131122-091111.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/trevinwax\/2013\/11\/21\/the-day-c-s-lewis-john-f-kennedy-and-aldous-huxley-died\/\">Book Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/11\/03\/three-great-men-died-that-day-jfk-c-s-lewis-and-aldous-huxley.html\">Newsweek Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                     &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>One of the Reasons C.S. Lewis Remains So Widely Read 50 Years after His Death<\/strong>, ByJohn Piper:<\/p>\n<p>Lewis\u2019s unwavering commitment to what is True and Real and Valuable, as opposed to what is trendy or fashionable or current, has been another kind of liberation for me, namely, from \u201cchronological snobbery.\u201d He loved the wisdom of the ages, not the whimsy of the passing present. He called himself a Neanderthaler and a dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t read newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>He never wore a watch.<\/p>\n<p>He never learned to type.<\/p>\n<p>He did not own or drive a car.<\/p>\n<p>He cared nothing about cutting a good appearance and wore the same old clothes until they were threadbare.<\/p>\n<p>He was incredibly free from the addicting powers of the present moment.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of this on me has been to make me wary of what he called \u201cchronological snobbery.\u201d  That is, he has shown me that \u201cnewness\u201d is no virtue, and \u201coldness\u201d is no fault. He considered the present time to be provincial with its own blind spots. He said once: every third book you read should be from outside your own (provincial) century. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the centuries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/fitty-year-ago-november-22-1963-lewis-kennedy-huxley\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Great Men Died That Day:<br \/> C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and JFK<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131122-090916.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty years ago, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. 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