The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses

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The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses is a compilation of essays on Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

Chapter list and descriptions For the 1980 McMillan Publishing Company's revised and expanded paperback edition.

• Introduction by Walter Hooper, Editor
• Preface to the original edition by C. S. Lewis: "This book contains a selection of the too numerous addresses which I was induced to give during the late war and the years that immediately followed it."

1. "The Weight of Glory" - First given at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, June 8th, 1941
2. "Learning in War-Time" - Given at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, October 22, 1939
3. "Why I am not a Pacifist" - Talk, "given to a pacifist society at Oxford sometime in 1940", from the introduction.
4. "Transposition" - Given in the Chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford, May 28th, 1944.
5. "Is Theology Poetry?" - Presented to the Oxford University Socratic Club, November 6th 1944
6. "The Inner Ring" - This was the "Commemoration Oration" given at King's College, University of London, December 14, 1944
7. "Membership" - Read to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius, Oxford, February 10, 1945
8. "On Forgiveness" - Written for Father Patrick Kevin Irwin (1907-1965) and sent to him, August 28, 1947. First Published in "Fern-seed and Elephants and Other Essays on Christianity" by C. S. Lewis.
9. "A Slip of the Tongue" - Given at the Chapel of Magdalene College, Cambridge, January 29, 1956. This was the last sermon preached by C. S. Lewis.