title: When the Eternal Can Be Met: The Bergsonian Theology of Time in the Works of C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden
author:  Corey Latta 
description: This study is yet more proof that C. S. Lewis is finally coming into his deserved recognition as a formidable twentieth-century author and intellect. Latta's fine study breaks new ground in identifying how the 'dinosaur' Lewis also belonged to his own age.<br>--Jameela Lares, Professor of English, University of Southern Mississippi<br><br>It is rare to find a thinker who transcends disciplines in such a seamless way. Latta's work is theologically deep, philosophically sound, and literarily astute. Many pastors may not readily see the implications of a philosophy of 'time' as it relates to ministry, but <i>When the Eternal Can Be Met</i> wisely demonstrates the significance for any thoughtful Christian. This book nourishes my soul, equips my mind, and gives me apt words to speak to my congregation.<br>--Jim Shultz, Millennial Pastor, Hope Church<br><br>Latta's work here is important--not least because it helps place C. S. Lewis in context with his modernist contemporaries. For too long have scholars read Lewis in isolation from the thinkers to whom he responded. <i>When the Eternal Can Be Met</i> helps paint a picture of Lewis, who wrote in the same world and about the same ideas with which Bergson, Auden, and Eliot wrestled.<br>--Armond Boudreaux, Assistant Professor, East Georgia State College --Wipf and Stock Publishers
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  Eliot's Four Quartets v. 13.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 13 September 2017 
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  Thomas Stearns Eliot 
  Four Quartets 
  On our Immortal Soul in her cyclic pilgrimage to the abyss of materiality 
  before rising from the bowels of the underworld, onward and upward, 
  to the summit of Unconscious Immateriality from whence she came. 
  
  MYSTIC VERSE AND INSIGHTS SERIES 
  1. BURNT NORTON 
  Eliot's Four Quartets v. 13.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 13 September 2017 
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  Του λογου δε εοντος ξυνου ζωουσιν οι πολλοι 
  ως ιδιαν εχοντες φρονησιν.
  1 
  — Heraclitus, fr. 2 
  Οδος ανω και κατω μια και ωαυτη.
  2 
  — Heraclitus, fr. 69
  3 
   
   
  Burnt Norton
  4 
  I 
  Time present and time past 
  Are both perhaps present in time future 
  And time future contained in time past. 
  If all time is eternally present 
  All time is unredeemable. 
  What might have been is an abstraction 
  Remaining a perpetual possibility 
  Only in a world of speculation. 
  What might have been and what has been 
  Point to one en