briefly explore C.S. Lewis’ Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life with these questions in mind. According to many Lewis’ biographers and scholars‚ he was a master of the “smoke screen” (Ward). Several examples can be presented: his relationship with Mrs. Moore. Was she a surrogate mother or a lover‚ or perhaps some mixture? Lewis completely omits her from Surprised by Joy and deletes references to her from his correspondence. Like his fellow Inkling‚ Charles Williams‚ Lewis had an obsession with
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paper on one of my all time favorite authors‚ C.S. Lewis and one of his books‚ The Lion‚ The Witch and The Wardrobe‚ from his collection The Chronicles of Narnia. Ever since I became a Christian‚ and I read Lewis book Mere Christianity‚ I have been hooked on Lewis books. I picked up the Narnia books‚ not realizing what they were‚ but because who the author was. I have read each one of Lewis books multiple times‚ and if I have free time to read‚ Lewis books some of the first ones I go to. I haven’t spent
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bear as a Christian‚ because it is the result of evil in the world‚ and since God’s allowance of evil is hard to explain‚ it is an atheist’ best argument against Christian faith. My views on why God allows suffering are based on C.S. Lewis’ book “The Problem of Pain”. Lewis’ thoughts basically show that there is sufficient evidence that God is real and that pain exists because the all-powerful God created creatures that aren’t happy. Since the fall of man‚ we are never content with what we have and are
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In his book “Mere Christianity‚” C.S. Lewis proposes the idea that despite what society may say‚ there is an ultimate moral standard for mankind. Lewis refers to this Law as the Law of Human Nature‚ or the Law of Right and Wrong. Lewis proposes that‚ not only does this Law preside in the hearts of all men‚ but mankind is unique in his ability to disobey that Law. A man can either disobey this Law‚ such as stealing from someone‚ or obey it‚ treating people fairly. Every man has an awareness of right
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Christianity is a religion that more than half of our world believes in. It is the belief that Jesus was the Son of God who saved humanity from sin. That Mary the redeemer said yes to God. Christianity is made up of many different parts. The Paschal Mystery which means the life‚ death and resurrection of Jesus‚ the Son of God is what sets Christianity apart from other religions. Christianity has many denominations‚ for example Mormons‚ Anglicans‚ Presbyterian. Christians believe that Jesus lived
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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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backpack on Tuesday while walking home from the library in the Red Raider Parking Garage. The sophomore education major said she was alone while walking to her dorm at San Jacinto Hall. A man on a bike knocked down Estella Garza and grabbed her backpack. She said the man was tall and thin and wearing a University of Texas T-shirt and a ball cap. “I mean I should have fought back or hit him or something but it all happened so quick‚” Garza said. “One minute I was walking to my dorm and the next minute
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commit atrocious acts the still happen today. The lion‚ the Witch‚ and the wardrobe is a very intriguing novel written by C.S. Lewis. Now C.S. Lewis was an army veteran he also was very good friends with J.R.R. Tolkien they hold each other’s writings accountable that’s part of the reason this book is so mindboggling. The book was published on October 16‚ 1950 on a bright sunny day inside these three paragraphs I will give you a glimpse into the magical world of Narnia. The appalling White Witch and
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Joshua Smith ENGL 2342-002 Jane Focht-Hansen Monday‚ March 31‚ 2014 Reader Response Criticism and C.S. Lewis’s “An Experiment in Criticism” C.S. Lewis‚ besides being the author of many popular children’s stories‚ was a professor of medieval literature at both Cambridge and Oxford. Contrary to what might be supposed‚ he was not an author by career‚ and much of what he wrote was in the same vein of his area of expertise‚ literary analysis. “An Experiment in Criticism” is his longest and
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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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