Who is C. S. Lewis

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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.

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 Observed

Written 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 Christianity

Mere 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

Perelandra

Perelandra 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 Pain

For 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 Psalms

In 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 Letters

A 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 Nov 29, 2008 @ 8:36 pm | delete
    Excellent lens. I would like to personally invite you to join The Inklings: Remembering CS Lewis & Friends group.
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    Margo_Arrowsmith Oct 6, 2008 @ 5:29 am | delete
    Yes, I love his books, my favorite is The Great Divorce as it shows the problem with clinging to dogma and other attachments.
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    MexicoLarry Aug 21, 2008 @ 3:28 pm | delete
    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!
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    ideadesigns May 3, 2008 @ 10:41 pm | delete
    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.
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    e_barrett Mar 7, 2008 @ 9:06 am | delete
    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.
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    Nonsence Sep 9, 2007 @ 11:34 pm | delete
    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.
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    jdcastro Sep 8, 2007 @ 3:48 pm | delete
    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.
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    gods_grace_notes Sep 4, 2007 @ 10:59 am | delete
    I love the Chronicles of Narnia! Thanks for joining God's Grace Notes...Welcome to the Club!
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