{"id":39048,"date":"2019-10-06T17:52:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T21:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?p=39048"},"modified":"2019-10-07T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T17:53:44","slug":"c-s-lewis-roundly-mocked-the-documentary-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2019\/10\/c-s-lewis-roundly-mocked-the-documentary-hypothesis.html","title":{"rendered":"C. S. Lewis Roundly Mocked the Documentary Hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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No one need accept the Documentary Hypothesis, and there are many solid reasons not<\/em>\u00a0to:<\/p>\n

In the last two decades of Pentateuchal scholarship, the source-critical method has come under unprecedented attack; in many quarters it has been rejected entirely. . . . [various factors] have led scholarship to the brink of abandoning the four sources, J, E, P and D. (The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University: Spring 2009 Calendar of Events<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

C. S. Lewis lampooned the theory in his letters:<\/p>\n

This bloomer [a geographical error in his\u00a0Screwtape Letters<\/i>] has been pointed out several times already. The higher critics will use it to prove that the book was really written 200 years later by five different \u2018Hands\u2019 as they appropriately call them! (Letter to Thomas Wilkinson Riddle, 17 May 1944; in\u00a0The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931-1949<\/i>, edited by Walter Hooper, HarperSanFrancisco, 2004, p. 614)<\/p>\n

I envy you parts of your obituary. You get in very essential points which I had missed \u2014 his scepticism and his way of converting the other person\u2019s mere stammer into great truth. A higher critic would deduce from this either that C. W. [Charles Williams] had never existed or that one or other of us was quite unhistorical. (Letter to Anne Ridler, 3 June 1945,\u00a0Ibid<\/i>., pp. 658-659)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have addressed the Documentary Hypothesis in two articles of mine:<\/p>\n

Documentary Theory of Biblical Authorship (JEPD): Dialogue<\/i><\/a>\u00a0[2-12-04]<\/p>\n

Documentary Theory (Pentateuch): Critical Articles<\/i>\u00a0<\/a>[6-21-10]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also have lampooned it and\/or the general skeptical \/ liberal theological flawed and wrongheaded approach to the Bible at least twice:<\/p>\n

Silent Night: A \u201cProgressive\u201d and \u201cEnlightened\u201d Reinterpretation<\/i><\/a>\u00a0[12-10-04; additionally edited for publication at\u00a0National Catholic Register<\/i>: 12-21-17]<\/p>\n

A Satire on the Modernist Distortion of Jesus\u2019 Human Nature and Denigration of the Reliability of Holy Scripture\u00a0<\/i><\/a>[1-11-00]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bottom line: I reject what I regard to be false premises of the Documentary Hypothesis, as to biblical interpretation.<\/p>\n

G. K. Chesterton and Fr. Ronald Knox also agree, as documented in the combox for this paper<\/a> (below).<\/p>\n

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My book royalties from<\/span> three bestsellers in the field<\/a> (published in 2003-2007) have been decreasing, as has my overall income, making it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.\u00a0 I provide over 2500 free articles here, for the purpose of your edification and education, and have<\/span> written 50 books<\/a>. It\u2019ll literally be a struggle to survive financially until Dec. 2020, when both my wife and I will start receiving Social Security. If you cannot contribute, I ask for your prayers. Thanks! See my<\/span> information on how to donate<\/a>\u00a0(including 100% tax-deductible donations). It\u2019s very simple to contribute to my apostolate via PayPal, if a tax deduction is not needed (my \u201cbusiness name\u201d there is called \u201cCatholic Used Book Service,\u201d from my old bookselling days 17 or so years ago). May God abundantly bless you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo credit:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0stuartpilbrow at Flickr<\/a>\u00a0(3-9-09) [Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/\u00a0Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic<\/a>\u00a0license]<\/p>\n

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