# “The World’s Last Night” by C.S. Lewis

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- Published: 2009-08-03T20:49:55-05:00
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“There are many reasons why the modern Christian and even the modern theologian 
may hesitate to give to the doctrine of Christ’s Second Coming that emphasis which
was usually laid on it by our ancestors. Yet it seems to me impossible to retain
in any recognisable form our belief in the Divinity of Christ and the truth of the
Christian revelation while abandoning, or even persistently neglecting, the promised,
and threatened, Return.

‘He shall come again to judge the quick and the dead,’ says the Apostles’ Creed.‘
This same Jesus,’ said the angels in Acts, ‘shall so come in like manner as ye have
seen Him go into heaven.’ ‘Hereafter,’ said our Lord Himself, ‘shall ye see the 
Son of Man… coming in the clouds of heaven.’ If this is not an integral part of 
the faith once given to the saints, I do not know what is.”

–C.S. Lewis, “The World’s Last Night,” in _[The World’s Last Night And Other Essays](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062643517?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
New York: Harvest, 1952), 93.

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