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billclute
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Posted 08/18/10
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"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis
Can any of you help me find the source (book/page) for this quote? I've searched every C.S. Lewis book I could find on Amazon and couldn't find it.
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ubi2002
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Posted 08/18/10
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I remember reading this quote in one of his books. I'm pretty sure it was in Mere Christianity. I love C. S. Lewis' works!
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aengs115
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Posted 08/18/10
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I have just started reading a couple of books by him. I think the English titles of the books i found on the local library are The Screw tape letters and The great divorce. Hopefully I will be able to find Mere Christianity as well.
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billclute
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Posted 08/18/10
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Quote: I remember reading this quote in one of his books. I'm pretty sure it was in Mere Christianity. I love C. S. Lewis' works!
I searched Mere Christianity on Amazon and couldn't find it there. Maybe Amazon's search, or my usage of it, is not reliable. I have the book at home so, I'll try the page by page method there.
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john
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Posted 08/18/10
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Unfortunately the term soul is so imprecise and subjective, (either that or the terms used in definition are similarly superplastic), it really needs the user of the term to define his use as he sees it.
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billclute
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Posted 08/18/10
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John-
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Unfortunately the term soul is so imprecise and subjective, (either that or the terms used in definition are similarly superplastic), it really needs the user of the term to define his use as he sees it.
Thanks but I'm not really looking for a critique of the statement. I'm simply looking for the source.
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jbiemans
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Posted 08/18/10
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http://peoplegetready.org/christian-apologetics/soul-body/#_ftn1
This site cites it on page 129 but the pdf versions of the book I can find do not go up that high.
it only goes to page 108, and that quote is no where to be found.
Wow that was hard to find:
Quote: Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. “Yon don’thavea soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz - Page 186
It is amazing how many people attribute this to Lewis !
I found it because of this:
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billclute
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Posted 08/18/10
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jbiemans-
Thanks for that info. I'll look at pg. 129 of my copy at home tonight. If it is not there (or something similar to it) I'll go with the Miller quote.
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ubi2002
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Posted 08/18/10
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Could this quote have been misquoted all along? I always thought it was from C. S. Lewis
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jbiemans
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Posted 08/18/10
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It will be interesting to see what Bill says
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billclute
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Posted 08/19/10
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It wasn't on pg. 129 of my copy of "Mere Christianity" but it is quite possible that the person linked to in post 7 was using a different edition that would have it on a different page. I looked at the pages preceding and following pg. 129 and didn't see it there either.
I've heard Ravi Zacharias use this quote and attribute it to Lewis and even say he was studying Lewis when he came across it, so, I e-mailed RZIM hoping they can help.
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jbiemans
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Posted 08/19/10
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This has actually gotten me quite intrigued.
If it does turn out that it is not a Lewis quote, it will be an interesting commentary on how a quote can be wrongly attributed to someone, even in the modern age.
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aengs115
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Posted 08/19/10
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What a thread, you could even make a movie, The hunt for the lost quote. 
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tcampen
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Posted 08/19/10
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I found a .pdf of Mere Christianity here, and did a search function on parts of the phrase, and found nothing. I search all instances of "soul" and then "body" and did not find the quote anywhere where those words were individually found.
The online version is scanned from a 1952 copyright of the book.
The mystery deepens!
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jbiemans
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Posted 08/19/10
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yes, I did that as well and posted the link to the pdf. That is why I dug deeper and found the book that actually has a quote like that in it, which I also posted a link to.
On the path doing that though, I had to sift through many, many pages all giving credit to C.S. Lewis for the quote, and many were citing Mere Christianity as the source.
I think, if Bill's lead does not pull through, it would be interesting to take a sample of how many sites reference it to Lewis. It would make a good case study.
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