Letters V & VI

Letters to Malcom: Chiefly on Prayer.
Reflections on the Intimate Dialogue between Man and God. 

Letter V.

Lewis interprets the meaning of the Lord’s Prayer, his festooning of it. He has interesting and helpful, to me at least, ways to look at the phrases in the prayer. For example, when talking about the difficulty forgiving people who have sinned against him, he prays for this against whom he has committed the same sin.

Letter VI.

Lewis talks about religion and how it can’t be a department in our lives. “But that whose claims are infinite can have no standing as a department. Either it is an illusion or else our whole life falls under it. We have no non-religious activities; only religious and irreligious.” 

He ends with some musings on guilt and how to identify true guilt.

Charles Eklund 2018