{"id":2059,"date":"2010-11-22T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2010-11-22T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:18:54","slug":"47th-anniversary-of-cs-lewiss-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/47th-anniversary-of-cs-lewiss-death\/","title":{"rendered":"47th Anniversary of C.S. Lewis&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"C.S. Lewis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epm.org\/static\/uploads\/images\/Lewissmoking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"223\" \/>C.S. Lewis died on November 22, 1963, just seven days shy of his 65th birthday on November 29th.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the 47th anniversary of his death, the same day that President John F. Kennedy and writer Aldous Huxley died.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Living the Legacy&#8221; of C.S. Lewis, we at the Foundation don&#8217;t seek to idolize the man or merely to memorialize him, but rather see him as a model of someone who lived as a Christian in higher education and who used his imagination and intellect in the service of Christ. \u00a0Among many other qualities, he was ever-seeking, charitable, humble, and joyous.<\/p>\n<p>Three areas Lewis often wrote and spoke about that particularly resonate with our mission are &#8220;Mere Christianity,&#8221; higher education\/scholarship, and the world of creativity and imagination. \u00a0Whether it&#8217;s the founding of C.S. Lewis College, our Summer Institute at Oxbridge, the programs of The Study Centre at The Kilns (Lewis&#8217;s beloved home), or our conferences and retreats, it is these three areas that we seek to infuse into all of our work at the C.S. 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