{"id":19941,"date":"2024-08-30T20:21:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19941"},"modified":"2024-08-30T20:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:21:28","slug":"this-is-my-fathers-world-no-matter-what-weldon-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19941","title":{"rendered":"This is my Father&#8217;s world, no matter what Weldon thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Is My Father&#039;s World (arr. \u0112riks E\u0161envalds)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kxin3PNF9_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I thought, since it\u2019s Friday,<\/strong> I\u2019d post some music consistent with my overheated musings in yesterday\u2019s post. So here\u2019s a lovely arrangement of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/text\/this_is_my_fathers_world_and_to_my\">This Is My Father\u2019s World,<\/a>\u201d one of my old favorite hymns. It was originally published in 1901, with lyrics by Rev. Maltbie D. Babcock (1858-1901), a sadly short-lived Presbyterian pastor who published several popular hymns. The tune is Terra Beata, based on an English folk song. (And I\u2019m pretty sure they cribbed the first line for the Shire theme in the <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> movies.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here&#8217;s an interesting item<\/strong> from the latest issue of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycslsociety.com\/\">Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society<\/a>. It\u2019s all the better for being written by our good friend Dale Nelson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pages 22 and 23 feature Dale\u2019s article on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Dewar_Weldon\">Thomas Dewar Weldon <\/a>(1896-1958), with whom Lewis had a variable relationship. They came to Oxford at the same time, and were good friends for a while. But even before he stopped being an atheist, Lewis grew weary of Weldon\u2019s relentless, materialist cynicism. As a tutor in Moral Philosophy his teaching method (according to R. W. Johnson\u2019s book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Look-Back-Laughter-Oxfords-Postwar\/dp\/1903152356\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=264GZSGHGPXR7&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ApMhZAcNaCnvPPX7ea7pZBWzFP2W-NCNWd1_h8inbNXDSXrl555LBTKZE5oo1hUDRlDQU8crEZVmpWCeG_CjBEB1mInv8WQi9Bz84WV9HulUbRGP61Iszw9HaxZ6lSX1y3n-cnGW1BiBnWtVNbfDZPQsOBfH1r2dyRXNJI3-psKsPojhrFzdwQNOvo58s0cP9V-viWoccxcY8d7hHaZc4dtOc781UiRwCCm8mHjuGSU.OoNwGo120x3SmSNyyPKuq-8-4FiXMY13Qzf2YF73QRU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=look+back+in+laughter&amp;qid=1725063162&amp;sprefix=look+back+in+laughter%2Caps%2C348&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">Look Back in Laughter: Oxford\u2019s Postwar Golden Age<\/a><\/em>) was to first demolish his students\u2019 conventional beliefs, and then to demolish whatever new beliefs they constructed, until they were left \u201cin a state of free-floating agnostic cleverness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Weldon declared, in a 1944 lecture at Bomber Command Headquarters, near Oxford, that the carpet bombing of German cities was justified because it would shorten the war and save lives. Lewis was already on the record, along with a number of Anglican clergy, as rejecting that argument categorically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weldon was (according to George Sayer) that \u201chardest-boiled atheist\u201d who remarked to Lewis in his rooms one day that the evidence for the Resurrection of Christ was remarkably good, saying, \u201cRum thing,\u201d as Lewis recalled in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Surprised-Joy-Shape-Early-Life-ebook\/dp\/B01EFM8NKC\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RYTIH91B99OS&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.hVlQrt9v3j8M5cKztx7VYE3D7je2L6T7Kniik0gT_nrKdT97NsvC5WWHIVdmQGYn7tEkYsXCLD4ReMABVHjV0OiS1sleEPN6D_x1Z-N8snKRECKNFitt1ZnQwo4dsPuh_I4xiFOu0xu8eBt-oLMr8Dvd6w1aoBLIHYHQZoDFLfxCRgnhcuZ9EwrqA63DIysYdV-TXrDAwMUaRpOMkea5tMKAkanDFEQN_TlW0heM2qc.GIGkdzvxWDzJHWiC7jRuuTFcOIg4QUGyJ7GMKQet8Z8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=surprised+by+joy+cs+lewis&amp;qid=1725063259&amp;sprefix=surprised+by+j%2Caps%2C171&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">Surprised By Joy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weldon was also the model for the Dick Devine, the cynical, flippant character who\u2019s so annoying in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Out-Silent-Planet-Space-Trilogy-ebook\/dp\/B006L8723I\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GLASFCVMX9SO&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y3s8mppd5xYS4uJENVAEwwqqo01TryDkIBtAsPjixZ7YckJMbQ_5dMqrXYsH2ajM9ULdrkIORpPYuGLbF3osyS4gZf5FP1qq9rL8jZCgKXvbJdi90J4RW1Nn6REP82viuzFM9gn9fOVqJ2kNzj_lUhnADvzxhQ6luwJUJf-8jI-QxJKQekwpgKPJKfdaysKOTtL4g6lCBvRhCwrSLw1YAtZUey_OyRMkWLVYqQ7t2aQ.WjHasYMGmkXITe92WcrCQviYHuschxvmBm9ylOBbGlU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=out+of+the+silent+planet+c.s.+lewis&amp;qid=1725063343&amp;sprefix=out+of+the+silent+%2Caps%2C162&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">Out of the Silent Planet<\/a><\/em> and (promoted to the title, Lord Feverstone) in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/That-Hideous-Strength-Space-Trilogy-ebook\/dp\/B006L8768O\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EHZR93TANDKN&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fF4tEjxo6_Olqbqvr3-6ouy5homK9OG-B7y51oLPXiUJnPikPkCbQnEEZmjV9k48igB2je4fBbWR3BGddxEvDdz6M_FIYUhnHfpEkAPphJUMSR939Oy99BTHbAm6xrGhCPrMdKL2DKDtTvNh9Ge_Re6oyI7YCdp0SNFm7IonJcMSvNrhCepOhxvxPgkc8zmpiMOnC2Lmhrv8_H3Iu_lUenNCWnjjOF9g9zBm83PxOIY.djXBBipa-zLBdH8Qt57MmiIX7UK9b1BqgQvOkV3MrTA&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=that+hideous+strength+by+c.s.+lewis&amp;qid=1725063393&amp;sprefix=that+hide%2Caps%2C180&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">That Hideous Strength<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought, since it\u2019s Friday, I\u2019d post some music consistent with my overheated musings in yesterday\u2019s post. So here\u2019s a lovely arrangement of \u201cThis Is My Father\u2019s World,\u201d one of my old favorite hymns. It was originally published in 1901, with lyrics by Rev. Maltbie D. Babcock (1858-1901), a sadly short-lived Presbyterian pastor who published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is my Father&#8217;s world, no matter what Weldon thought<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9,14],"tags":[432,622,5305,5304],"class_list":["post-19941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-music","category-religion","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-dale-nelson","tag-this-is-my-fathers-world","tag-thomas-dewar-weldon"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19943,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions\/19943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}