C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was educated at Cherbourg House, Malvern College, and Oxford. He was professor of medieval and renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931 resulted in a flow of outstanding theological books, but it was The Chronicles of Narnia that he became best known for.
Three reasons to love C. S. Lewis
1.) He wrote the Narnia books.2.) C.S. Lewis is a man of Faith
2.) C.S. Lewis is a man of integrity.
C. S. Lewis at a Glance
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 ? 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/338121/C-S-Lewis novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.
Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, and both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal...
Chronicles of Narnia Audio Books
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis Juvenile / Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
- Polly Plummer and her next-door-neighbour Digory are exploring one wet afternoon when the accidental discovery of some magic rings sends them off on the most exciting and dangerous journey of their...
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis Juvenile / Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
- When Lucy comes across an old wardrobe standing alone in the spare room, she thinks she has found a good place for hide and seek. But then she tumbles headlong into a magical world of fauns,...
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Horse and His Boy - C. S. Lewis Juvenile / Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
- Shasta has a lonely and hardworking life in the small fishing village in the south of Calorman and it is all that young Shasta knows until, one day, he overhears his father planning to sell him...
- Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian - C. S. Lewis Juvenile / Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
- Narnia has been at peace since Peter, Lucy, Susan and Edmund helped rid the kingdom of the evil White Witch. But now the children have returned to their own world, and in their absence a dark...
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis Juvenile / Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
- In the enchanted land of Narnia, Edmund and Lucy join King Caspian on a sworn mission to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. So begins a perilous new quest that takes them to the farthest edge of...
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis Juvenile / Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
- King Caspian has grown old and sad in the ten years since the disappearance of his only son. With time running out, Jill and Eustace embark on a perilous quest to find the Prince and bring back...
- Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Last Battle - C. S. Lewis Juvenile / Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
- "To my side, all true Narnians! Would you wait till your new masters have killed you all, one by one?"...
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A Grief Observed
A Grief ObservedWritten after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a
manor at any rate a man like me out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.
Mere Christianity
Mere ChristianityMere Christianity is C. S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of religion.
Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C. S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that "at the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice."
Perelandra
PerelandraPerelandra is a planet of pleasure, an unearthly, misty world of strange desires,sweet smells, and delicious tastes, where beasts are friendly and naked beauty is unashamed, a new Garden of Eden, where the story of the oldest temptation is enacted in an intriguingly new way. Here, in the second part of the trilogy, Dr. Ransom's adventures continue against the backdrop of a religious allegory that, while it may seem quaint in its treatment of women today, nonetheless shows the capability of science to be an evil force tempting a ruler away from the path that has produced a paradisiacal kingdom.
The Problem Of Pain
The Problem Of PainFor centuries, Christians have been tormented by one question above all: "If God is good and all powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?"
C. S. Lewis sets out to disentangle this knotty issue but wisely adds that, in the end, no intellectual solution can dispense with the necessity for patience and courage.
Reflections on the Psalms
Reflections on the PsalmsIn one of his most enlightening works, C. S. Lewis shares his ruminations on both the form and the meaning of selected psalms. In the introduction he explains, "I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself." Consequently, he takes on a tone of thoughtful collegiality as he writes on one of the Bible's most elusive books.
Characteristically graceful and lucid, Lewis cautions us that the psalms were originally written as songs that should now be read in the spirit of lyric poetry rather than as doctrinal treatises or sermons. Drawing from daily life as well as the literary world, Lewis begins to reveal the mystery that often shrouds the psalms. This book also includes an appendix featuring the full text of selected psalms and a listing of all the psalms mentioned and discussed.
The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape LettersA masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C. S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptationand triumph over itever written.
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AslanBooks wrote...
Excellent lens. I would like to personally invite you to join The Inklings: Remembering CS Lewis & Friends group.
Posted November 29, 2008
Margo_Arrowsmith wrote...
Yes, I love his books, my favorite is The Great Divorce as it shows the problem with clinging to dogma and other attachments.
Posted October 06, 2008
MexicoLarry wrote...
Thanks for making this lens. C.S.Lewis was definitely a great man, who truly used his amazing intellect for God's glory. I've read most of his books more than once, and seeing this lens makes me want to read them again!
Posted August 21, 2008
ideadesigns wrote...
I haven't read the book, but since watching the movie, I want to get it for my kids. I could see Christianity all through it.
Posted May 03, 2008
e_barrett wrote...
I enjoyed the Chronicles of Narnia as a kid, but I didn't think they were fantastic. So I could never quite see why so many people loved Lewis. But all that changed when I read the Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. CS Lewis was not only a brilliant, but he was a brilliant master of the English language.
Posted March 07, 2008
Nonsence wrote...
I've ready all of his books, they are classics! Well, I am a thinking person with a Master's in Theology from a Catholic University, and I disagree with Mr. Castro... Very nice lens. I might make one on G.K. Chesterton, another great Christian writer.
Posted September 09, 2007
jdcastro wrote...
Interesting. What I can't understand is why evangelicals are so fond of him, as he was not an evangelical and said so plainly in his books. "Mere Christianity" is mere indeed - weak arguments that really convince no thinking person.
Posted September 08, 2007
gods_grace_notes wrote...
I love the Chronicles of Narnia! Thanks for joining God's Grace Notes...Welcome to the Club!
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Posted September 04, 2007
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