My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » C S Lewis (Page 2) Email this page to a friend or enemy.   Pages in this thread: 1  2    Source: (consider it) Thread: C S Lewis moron Shipmate # 206 Posted                        I've been re-reading A. N. Wilson's Lewis biography and during the process (Wilson PROVES Romans 2:1 ) read how he had reconverted to theism. It made me glad, somehow. Posts: 4236 | From: Bentonville | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged TomOfTarsus Shipmate # 3053 Posted                       I'm probably odd in that I'd never heard of his fiction (Narnia, etc.) but somehow knew of him via his apologetics. The dear man was very helpful to me during my big life crisis (repentance, conversion, ???). The Problem of Pain was revolutionary to me, and answered a lot of questions. But it should never be read without also reading A Grief Observed, IMHO. I love The Great Divorce not so much for its depiction of the afterlife, but as a parable for the here-and-now. I wonder if that wasn't really his aim; in the The Weight of Glory he notes that we've never met a mere mortal; everyone we meet is to be, one day, either an everlasting splendor or a horror surpassing our worst nightmares, and in our every interaction with them, we push them toward one destination or the other. It's those thing which ought to be so basic to us as people that I had to learn. And now I use them to try to keep my rudder straight! -------------------- By grace are ye saved through faith... not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath ... ordained that we should walk in them. Posts: 1570 | From: Pittsburgh, PA USA | Registered: Jul 2002  |  IP: Logged Izdaari Apprentice # 12432 Posted                       It's not the most enjoyable of his books or the best written, but Surprised by Joy is the most important to me because of the role it played in leading me back into the Christian fold after straying from it into near-atheism in my teens. Lewis' account of his struggles in trying to avoid conversion made me think about my own, and wonder "...maybe it is true after all". Posts: 19 | From: Pacific NW, USA | Registered: Mar 2007  |  IP: Logged Pages in this thread: 1  2    Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0