C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce is a work that showcases the many patterns of denial and rejection that people use to avoid giving their lives to God. Lewis attempts to show the difference between heaven and hell. He does not do this in the literal sense of the places where humanity will be going in eternity. Rather‚ he embodies the figurative sense of heaven and hell which people experience on earth. He focuses on the importance of our earthly decisions in the balance of not only how we spend eternity
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Lewis argued‚ believing Jesus to be only a good teacher is not an option. Jesus clearly and undeniably proclaimed himself to be the son of God. If He is not God‚ then He is a fabricator‚ and therefore not a prophet‚ moral teacher‚ or godly man. In efforts
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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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Just like a woman’s body nourishes her children‚ beauty nourishes the soul. C.S. Lewis said it this way‚ "We do not want merely to see beauty‚ though‚ God knows‚ even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words-to be United with the beauty we see‚ to pass into it‚ to receive into ourselves." (The
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INTRODUCTION C. batrachus is an amphibious walking catfish which is capable of air-breathing. It resides in fresh water. It is found in Indian subcontinent. Usually‚ it lives in stagnant water bodies or swamps that are slow flowing. At the time of draught it moves terrestrially to live on mudflats. The characteristic features of such water bodies are low DO‚ high bicarbonate and NH3. During prolonged drought‚ it moves in or hides in the mud to avoid total dehydration C. batrachus is ureogenic i
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The Lion‚ The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis The Lion‚ The Witch and The Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis’s first book of the Chronicles of Narnia introduces the reader to the land of Narnia. Written in the 1950’s Lewis’s inspiration to write a children story stemmed from the arrival of three children evacuated to the Lewis country home during the bombing of London by the Nazi. Within unfolding story C.S. Lewis provides childlike insights into philosophies of faith‚ compassion‚ temptation‚ redemption and
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theologists‚ but C.S. Lewis made his own claim as to what he believes love really is. Lewis believed that love was not as simple as many theologians have put it. He believed that love was split into four different types‚ and that to understand love is to know these four types. Storge‚ Phileo‚ Eros‚ and Agape are the four types of loves Lewis speaks about. To be able to break down the subtle love between characters in his fictional novels‚ we must first have a firm grasp as to what Lewis really means when
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Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis’ argument for a Universal Law comes from ancient antiquity where it was referred to as the Law of Nature. This Law of Nature was something so inherent and so primal that it seemed all were bound to in some way. Now there is all sorts of law that we are bound to yet the only true law that we can break is the Natural Law. We can not as C. S. Lewis points out defy gravity or further defy Newtonian physics‚ but we can choose to not follow the standard. For example‚ if someone
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C.S. Lewis lived from 1898 to 1963. During his lifetime‚ he wrote over thirty books. One of his most popular books is Mere Christianity. Mere Christianity is broken up into four books ranging from twenty-five to seventy-five pages. Content for each of the books came from a series of radio broadcasts between 1942 and 1944. They read like a conversation instead of an essay. In Book One‚ C.S. Lewis seeks to explain the Law of Human Nature. He says that everyone appeals to some kind of standard of behavior
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The Wicked Ways of the White Witch: How Evil is Evident in Jadis‚ the “Queen” of Narnia It was once said that “evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree” (“Ethiopian”). In C. S. Lewis’ The Lion‚ the Witch‚ and the Wardrobe‚ evil enters the fictitious world of Narnia and quickly diffuses throughout the land. This evil permeates every aspect of its society and has its inhabitants living in fear of the source: Jadis‚ “Queen” of Narnia‚ better known as the White Witch. She is
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