What is it to be human?

Our guys, CSL, Tolkien, CW, and their mentors Chesterton, MacDonald and
others knew.
Two books I recommend are written by cyber friends I've met in various
places, most recently in the moderated Yahoo group SpareOom for the
discussion of life and works of C. S. Lewis. _Mere Humanity: G. K.
Chesterton, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition_ by
Donald T. Williams. And _C. S. Lewis's Danger Idea, In Defense of the
Argument from Reason_. The former discusses humanness (in imago dei) as
revealed in human creation of art and literature. The latter expands upon
and explains the variations of Lewis' debates of the Argument From Reason
with Anscombe (debunking the many myths about that debate and its
aftermath), and variations that Lewis's argument took over the span of his
apologetic career. Both books are most enlightening about what is thought
about Mind, and what could or could not be true about the human mind.
I, and a lot of people these days, have been thinking a lot about what being
truly human is, and how should we behave if we are truly made in God's
image. Are we the Green Book people? (Abolition of Man) or something else?

Happy reading,
Ann