His space trilogy was published at intervals: Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945). His serious religious writing begin to appear in the 1930s. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. You must picture me alone in that room at Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. The most notable lines in that book are these: Surprised by Joy (1955) is the story of his return. Kirkpatrick (“The Great Knock”), drilled into him the kind of rigorous thinking that would ultimately lead him back to faith. But the disciplined thought of a new teacher, a highly moral Scottish atheist, W.

Unhappy educational experiences contributed to his turn to atheism. Lewis (1898-1963), the well-known Christian apologist, was born in Ireland to nominal Anglican parents. 'I read Lewis for comfort and pleasure many years ago, and a glance into the books revives my old admiratation.'- John Updike'A very personal, anguished, luminous little book about the meaning of death, marriage, and religion.1. This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings. Only under torture does he discover it himself.' He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections of 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. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the 'mad midnight moments,' A Grief Observed is C. Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the 'mad midnight moments,' A Grief Observed an unflinchingly truthful account of how loss can lead even a stalwart believer to lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and the inspirational tale of how he can possibly regain his bearings. This book wrestles with the meaning of loss or lack of meaning with unswerving honesty.Ī classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. About the Book This is the poignant account of how the great theologian faced the doubt, anger, and grief he experienced after losing his beloved wife to cancer.

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