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The Most Reluctant Convert
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Author : David C. Downing
language : en
Publisher: C. S. Lewis Secondary Studies Series
Release Date : 2021-05-07
The Most Reluctant Convert written by David C. Downing and has been published by C. S. Lewis Secondary Studies Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-07 with categories.
"This edition is a scanned facsimile of the original edition published in 2004"--title page verso.
The Most Reluctant Convert
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Author : David C. Downing
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-05-07
The Most Reluctant Convert written by David C. Downing and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In his teens, a young man wrote, “I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “I never sank so low as to pray.” To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, “You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!” This young man was C. S. Lewis, the “foul-mouthed atheist” who would become one of the most eloquent Christian writers of the twentieth century. David C. Downing offers a unique look at Lewis’s personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life as a writer and eventual follower of Christ. This is the first book to focus on the period from Lewis’s childhood to his early thirties, a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration. It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life’s meaning so well.
C S Lewis S Dangerous Idea
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Author : Victor Reppert
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2009-09-20
C S Lewis S Dangerous Idea written by Victor Reppert and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-20 with Religion categories.
Who ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis. Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. In C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea Reppert offers careful, able development of Lewis's thought and demonstrates that the basic thrust of Lewis's argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, with ad hominem arguments, Reppert also revisits the debate and subsequent interaction between Lewis and the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. And addressing those who might be afflicted with philosophical snobbery, Reppert demonstrates that Lewis's powerful philosophical instincts perhaps ought to place him among those other thinkers who, by contemporary standards, were also amateurs: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume. But even more than this, Reppert's work exemplifies the truth that the greatness of Lewis's mind is best measured, not by his ability to do our thinking for us, but by his capacity to provide sound direction for taking our own thought further up and further in.
Long Journey Home
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Author : Os Guinness
language : en
Publisher: WaterBrook
Release Date : 2003-11-18
Long Journey Home written by Os Guinness and has been published by WaterBrook this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-18 with Religion categories.
Have you woken up to the journey of life? Have you reached a point where you long for “something more”? Have the things you have striven to achieve turned out to be far less than enough? Do you desire to unriddle life’s mystery and pursue a life rich with significance? Long Journey Home is a seeker’s road map to the quest for meaning. Rich in stories and profoundly personal as well as practical, it explores the great philosophies of life and charts the road toward meaning taken by countless thoughtful seekers over the centuries. Written for those who care and those who are open, “it assumes no faith in the reader, only the recognition that the humanness of life as a journey is something we should all care about enough to seek to make sense of it and to make up our minds for ourselves.”
Surprised By Joy
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Author : C. S. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-12-09
Surprised By Joy written by C. S. Lewis and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.
Essential C S Lewis
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Author : Clive Staples Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1996
Essential C S Lewis written by Clive Staples Lewis and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Religion categories.
Provides three complete works and selections from Lewis's autobiography, adult fiction, religious and philosophical writings, criticism, poetry, and letters
C S Lewis And The Catholic Church
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Author : Joseph Pearce
language : en
Publisher: TAN Books
Release Date : 2013
C S Lewis And The Catholic Church written by Joseph Pearce and has been published by TAN Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Religion categories.
C. S. Lewis, the great British novelist and Christian apologist, has been credited by many-including the author-for aiding their journey to the Catholic Church. For this reason, it is often perplexing that Lewis himself never became Catholic. In C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church, Joseph Pearce delves into Lewis's life, writings, and spiritual influences to shed light on the matter. Although C. S. Lewis's conversion to Christianity was greatly influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien, a Catholic, and although Lewis embraced many distinctively Catholic teachings, such as purgatory and the sacrament of Confession, he never formally entered the Church. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book digs deep to present the facts of Lewis's life, to illuminate key points in his writings, and to ask the question: Was C. S. Lewis on the path to Rome? This revised and updated edition-with a new introduction by Father Dwight Longenecker-is a fascinating historical, biographical, theological, and literary account of a man whose writings have led scores to the Catholic Church, despite never having become a Catholic himself.
Something Other Than God
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Author : Jennifer Fulwiler
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2016-10-10
Something Other Than God written by Jennifer Fulwiler and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-10 with Religion categories.
Jennifer Fulwiler told herself she was happy. Why wouldn't she be? She made good money as a programmer at a hot tech start-up, had just married a guy with a stack of Ivy League degrees, and lived in a twenty-first-floor condo where she could sip sauvignon blanc while watching the sun set behind the hills of Austin. Raised in a happy, atheist home, Jennifer had the freedom to think for herself and play by her own rules. Yet a creeping darkness followed her all of her life. Finally, one winter night, it drove her to the edge of her balcony, making her ask once and for all why anything mattered. At that moment everything she knew and believed was shattered. Asking the unflinching questions about life and death, good and evil, led Jennifer to Christianity, the religion she had reviled since she was an awkward, sceptical child growing up in the Bible Belt. Mortified by this turn of events, she hid her quest from everyone except her husband, concealing religious books in opaque bags as if they were porn and locking herself in public bathroom stalls to read the Bible. Just when Jennifer had a profound epiphany that gave her the courage to convert, she was diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition-and the only treatment was directly at odds with the doctrines of her new-found faith. Something other than God is a poignant, profound and often funny tale of one woman who set out to find the meaning of life and discovered that true happiness sometimes requires losing it all.
A Life Observed
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Author : Devin Brown
language : en
Publisher: Brazos Press
Release Date : 2013-08-15
A Life Observed written by Devin Brown and has been published by Brazos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Religion categories.
C. S. Lewis is one of the most influential Christian writers of our time. The Chronicles of Narnia has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and all Lewis's works are estimated to sell 6 million copies annually. At the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Lewis expert Devin Brown brings the beloved author's story to life in a fresh, accessible, and moving biography through focusing on Lewis's spiritual journey. Although it was clear from the start that Lewis would be a writer, it was not always clear he would become a Christian. Drawing on Lewis's autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this book tells the inspiring story of Lewis's journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian and challenges readers to follow their own calling. The book allows Lewis to tell his own life story in a uniquely powerful manner while shedding light on his best-known works.
The Secret Thoughts Of An Unlikely Convert
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Author : Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Secret Thoughts Of An Unlikely Convert written by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Religion categories.
"Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.