I see it‚ but because by it I see everything‚”-C.S. Lewis. Lewis’s life‚ especially his life as a writer‚ is defined by who he is in Christ. C.S. Lewis‚ born Clive Staples Lewis‚ grew up in the early 1900’s. Throughout his early life‚ Lewis was a devout atheist‚ including the time he spent fighting at war. However‚ in 1929‚ Lewis realized the truth that changed his life forever; Lewis met God. In the first few years of his Christian life‚ Lewis published several books including The Chronicles of
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According to C.S. Lewis‚ this humanity is not simply the existence as a biological species‚ but is instead founded upon the capacity to understand the objective values of the world. So‚ as the traditional values of the world are shunned‚ as they die‚ humanity will die as well. In Lewis’s book‚ The Abolition of Man‚ the permeation of moral relativism into the minds of the youth is the threat to humanity. In order to defend the importance of the doctrine of objective value‚ or the Tao‚ Lewis utilizes appeals
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Content Summary The book‚ The Great Divorce‚ was written in 1945 by C.S. Lewis. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book‚ Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In many ways‚ it is a refutation of Blake’s book; there is no marriage of heaven and hell. The book begins in a sad‚ dark‚ desolate place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. Eventually‚ he stumbles upon a bus station‚ along with many other
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A man will guess where his morals come from. What is right and what is wrong‚ what is good and what is bad. Some may say these are acquired‚ but then why would every civilization to ever come about have similar morales? “For example‚ some people wrote to me saying‚ ‘Isn’t what you call the Moral Law simply our herd instinct and hasn’t it been developed just like all our other instincts?’ (Lewis 19) The book Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis goes into great depth into what morals are. The book covers
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In C.S Lewis book The Four Loves he has a chapter about Friendship. At First he talks about that Friendship is something that few seem to find. With it being unnatural is something that has to be worked for‚ but like the other loves can be developed overtime. He then goes on to talk about male relationships and how they can be perceived by outsiders as homosexual‚ even though that is not always true. With friendship Eros can be touch many people at the same time. He then turns his attention to why
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From Lamb to Lion A chrysalis into a butterfly‚ water into wine‚ a lamb into a lion. These are all examples of transformation. A tool that not only C.S. Lewis used but even biblical authors did as well in their own writings. The importance of transformation is very prevalent in a Christian’s life because it not only shows a change in a form or a figure but the meaning behind the transformation is just as important. External transformation is a powerful visual device that can really emphasize the
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In Narnia‚ the children grow up in what appears to be a sheltered world. The four children in the real world are isolated and away from the reality‚ which is a world of war and devastation. This would explain why C.S. Lewis made the world of Narnia a world of perpetual winter. Since the children were so oblivious of what their world actually was‚ their perception was frozen and they were unable to see what was truly going on. As the novel progresses‚ the four realize that there is a war‚ and as they
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much of its existence has been spent pondering just how much control a God could even have in a world that has given so much trouble and torment to the inhabitants of a tumultuous planet. Humans have been without a doubt the most dominant species to exist on the planet‚ establishing domain over every facet of life that has come across our paths. It is almost this very reasoning that has left humanity wondering about this higher being called God‚ chiefly because there must be something that is able
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The great philosopher C. S. Lewis once wrote: “They say of some temporal suffering‚ ‘No future bliss can make up for it‚’ not knowing that Heaven‚ once attained‚ will work backwards and turn even that agony into glory” (Keller 34). How can agony and suffering be turned into glory? Suffering is a term that is closely related to the concepts of evil and pain. The verb‚ suffer‚ means to undergo or endure. Suffering is linked with the experience of anguish or misery in which humans are aware of the
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Nature and morality have a relationship‚ however there is a standard we follow when we try to change our nature. Natural law‚ which determines good and evil‚ is the same as moral law and we cannot repel it because we cannot take away the fact that we are human beings. However‚ the Conditioners are individuals who want to change human nature. They use their desires to determine what is good and evil instead of natural law and become slaves of their own nature. Natural law is what helps us understand
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