C. S. Lewis : Readings for Meditation and Reflection

by C. S. Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780060652852
• ISBN10: 0060652853
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-12
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Known throughout the world as the intellect behind The Chronicles of Narnia and as the twentieth century's most influential Christian writer, C. S. Lewis has stirred millions of readers through his probing insights, passionate arguments, and provocative questions about God, love, life, and death. Gathered from the mass of his published works -- including The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves, and God in the Dock -- as well as from letters, essays, and less familiar writings, this compendium contains a cross section of Lewis's finest work.

Author Biography

Clive Staples Lewis taught Renaissance and Medieval Literature at Cambridge University in England until his death in 1963.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Lion and the Stream	p. 1
The Intolerable Compliment	p. 2
The Lord of Terrible Aspect	p. 3
The Cost of Discipleship	p. 4
Can't You Lead a Good Life Without Believing in Christianity?	p. 6
The Christian and the Materialist	p. 8
Can Someone Lead a Good Life Without Christianity?	p. 10
Will Christianity Help Me?	p. 12
First and Second Things	p. 14
The First Job	p. 16
The Invasion	p. 18
The Personality of Jesus	p. 20
What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?	p. 22
Christ Has No Parallel in Other Religions	p. 25
God Has Come Down into the Created Universe	p. 28
Screwtape Explains Hell's Invention of the "Historical Jesus"	p. 30
God as Man	p. 32
Counting the Cost	p. 33
Half-hearted Creatures	p. 35
To Be Loved by God	p. 37
"Ordinary" People	p. 38
Becoming Clean Mirrors	p. 39
Screwtape on Hell's Idea of Humility	p. 41
We Delight to Praise	p. 43
Why We Need a Map	p. 45
Natural Law	p. 48
Morality Cannot Become "Stagnant"	p. 50
Looking "Along" and Looking "At"	p. 52
Belief in Miracles	p. 54
A Caution about Metaphors	p. 56
Prayer	p. 57
The Prayer Preceding All Prayers	p. 59
The Trouble with "X"	p. 61
Forgiving and Excusing	p. 63
Confession	p. 65
Emotional Reaction	p. 66
God Wants You to Be a Saint	p. 67
Encore!	p. 69
The Necessity of Pain	p. 71
Misfortune	p. 73
The Divorce of Heaven and Hell	p. 75
Hope	p. 77
The Great Sin	p. 79
Screwtape on Worldliness	p. 82
Sexual Morality	p. 84
Screwtape on Hell's View of Pleasure	p. 86
We Have No "Right to Happiness"	p. 87
Liking and Loving	p. 90
On Praying	p. 92
Ready-made Prayers	p. 94
Prayer and Time	p. 96
Screwtape on Time	p. 98
Screwtape Gives Hell's View of the Present	p. 100
"Do I Believe?"	p. 102
The Christian View of Suffering	p. 103
Anxiety	p. 105
Guilt	p. 107
Screwtape Explains to Wormwood Why God Will Not Over-ride Human Free-will	p. 109
Gift-love and Need-love	p. 111
Love 1: Affection	p. 113
Love 2: Friendship	p. 115
Love 3: Eros	p. 117
The Distractions of Domesticity	p. 119
Brother Ass	p. 120
When Eros Becomes a Demon	p. 122
Love 4: Charity	p. 124
Supernatural Need-love of God and of One Another	p. 126
"Hating" the People We Love	p. 128
To Love Is to Be Vulnerable	p. 130
Consciousness of Sin	p. 131
The Central Self	p. 133
A Fifth-columnist in the Soul	p. 135
A Caution	p. 137
Nice People or New Men	p. 138
The Perfect Critique	p. 140
The Second Coming	p. 142
The Secret We Cannot Hide and Cannot Tell	p. 144
First and Last Love	p. 146
Purgatory	p. 148
New Men in Christ	p. 149
Heaven	p. 151
A Final Word from Aslan	p. 154
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