C.S. Lewis

[joshuanazar]

Who else has read some of Lewis' works? What are your opinions on his works?

 

[kidwboro]

Who else has read some of Lewis' works? What are your opinions on his works?

I've read the Screwtape Letters, but I don't remember much of it, except that the author has a very good understanding of the schemes of the devil.

 

[Chicken Little]

chronicles of Narnia are awesome if you get allegory or if you kinow a kid or want to wake up the child in your soul...
Screw tape laters are great.
but Shadowlands is priceless.

 

[brinny]

I have seen many of his quotes, but i've never read any of his books. There is a book i'd like to read that someone quoted from once: The Great Divorce.

I belive it had a quote in there that stopped me in my tracks. It was something to the effect of "that insidious" something....

i can't remember it...but it apparently was quoted from the book.

 

[joshuanazar]

I have seen many of his quotes, but i've never read any of his books. There is a book i'd like to read that someone quoted from once: The Great Divorce.

I belive it had a quote in there that stopped me in my tracks. It was something to the effect of "that insidious" something....

i can't remember it...but it apparently was quoted from the book.

I wish you could have remembered the quote.

 

[joshuanazar]

I have read Narnia, and some of the screwtape letters. But I have heard more quotes from him.

 

[Chicken Little]

my Favorite quote is really his wives quote


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108101/quotes
I read the book then saw the movie is good but the book is better . It is about loosing things we love with grace and joy and hope .



JOY " The pain then is part of the happiness now. That's the deal."

 

[ken777]

My favorite C S Lewis quote is from "Mere Christianity":

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”​

 

[ken777]

my Favorite quote is really his wives quote


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108101/quotes
I read the book then saw the movie is good but the book is better . It is about loosing things we love with grace and joy and hope .



JOY " The pain then is part of the happiness now. That's the deal."

You posted the quote correctly - it is surprising how many people switch it around and say "The pain now is part of the happiness then."

I wonder if they think Joy was saying we have pain now in this life, but happiness in the next life. I think she was referring to the pain of parting when she died, and how that was a part of their present happiness, causing them to appreciate every moment together. (imho )

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[rivulet]

Here's a quote for you: "True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

I've read the The Screwtape letters, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, and all the Narnia Books.

I think C.S. Lewis was a good writer but he was not a theologian...

 

[BryanW92]

I think C.S. Lewis was a good writer but he was not a theologian...

Everyone is a theologian. The problem is that most people don't have a systematic theology.

 

[Job8]

Who else has read some of Lewis' works? What are your opinions on his works?

His theology is a strange blend and should not be relied upon. While he has been widely acclaimed, he has not been closely scrutinized. There are several articles on the web which show that Lewis had a mish-mash of theological ideas.

 

[joshuanazar]

Here's a quote for you: "True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

I've read the The Screwtape letters, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, and all the Narnia Books.

I think C.S. Lewis was a good writer but he was not a theologian...

He might not be a theologian, and to be honest I kind of don't really trust a lot of theologians. But he did understand a good deal about grace during a time that seemed to focus mostly on shallow confession and works. Or at least that is my impression from observing other literature from that time.

 

[joshuanazar]

His theology is a strange blend and should not be relied upon. While he has been widely acclaimed, he has not been closely scrutinized. There are several articles on the web which show that Lewis had a mish-mash of theological ideas.

What do you mean mish mash? So far I have found that he was kind of unconventional for his time, and some of his ideas might even be unconventional for today's time. But most of his work rings with truth.

 

[TheBarrd]

I've read Narnia, and the Screwtape letters.
I enjoyed them very much.
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[faroukfarouk]

I've read Narnia, and the Screwtape letters.
I enjoyed them very much.
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I read the Screwtape Letters; a very unusual book!

 

[rivulet]

I believe C.S. Lewis would be classified as an apologist.

 

[Job8]

What do you mean mish mash? So far I have found that he was kind of unconventional for his time, and some of his ideas might even be unconventional for today's time. But most of his work rings with truth.

Lewis did not believe that the Bible is inerrant and infallible

The following statement would seem to categorize Lewis as neo-orthodox in his understanding of the Bible: "Naivete, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed [from the pages of the Bible]. The total result is not ‘the Word of God’ in the sense that every passage, in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God…"

Lewis believed in theistic evolution

In the matter of God’s creation, Lewis had no difficulty in being committed to theistic evolution. Lewis called man "the highest of the animals." He also acknowledged: "If by saying that man rose from brutality you mean simply that man is physically descended from animals, I have no objection." Elsewhere he said: "What difficulties I have about evolution are not religious…."

Lewis believed in Purgatory, prayers for the dead, confession to priests

As a member in good standing of the Anglican Church, Lewis accepted an Anglican position on purgatory and prayers for the dead, as well as practicing auricular confession of sins. He believed in a substantive reality to heaven and hell but was agnostic about matters such as the precise dimension and duration of hell.

There are also other aspects of his beliefs which are no consistent with conservative Christian beliefs.

 

[joshuanazar]

Maybe all that you said is true. I know as a man, Lewis was not without error. I do not agree with everything that he believed, but he did believe in salvation through faith and that Christianity was about a living relationship with Jesus. And he wrote alot of good books and quotes about subjects that I do agree with.

 

[jargew]

In my opinion, "Mere Christianity" is one of the most profoundly logical books I have ever read.
It brilliantly supports the view that belief in Christ is highly rational, and is full of insights into the gospels.
That and Tim Keller's "A Reason for God" are two of my favorite" Christian reads.

One of Lewis' arguments for logically deducing the existence of God: "we know that men find themselves under a moral law, which they did not make, and cannot quite forget even when they try, and which they know they ought to obey.”