The CS Lewis Podcast #62 First and Second Things - CS Lewis’ essays and short writings

2022-07-11T16:00:00+01:00

Originally published in 1942 this essay argues that humans often turn ‘second order’ things such as music, art, romantic love, etc into ‘first order’ things in place of God. In doings so they lose the joy of those things in the process. “You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.”

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