C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Atheist turned Christian apologist, C.S. Lewis taught at Oxford University before being elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. Lewis is best known for his works: Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Plant, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and The Chronicles of Narnia.
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A Grief Observed by Call Number: BV4905.2 .L4 2001ISBN: 0060652381Publication Date: 2009-03-03Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," 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 man -- or 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 homest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.
The Problem of Pain by Call Number: BV4905 .L48ISBN: 0684823837Publication Date: 1996-06-01Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how they contrast with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good.
