Grand Miracle, The: And Other Selected Essays on Theology and Ethics from God in the Dock

Type

Book

Authors

Lewis, C.S.

ISBN 10

0345336585

ISBN 13

9780345336583

Tags

Faith, Apologetics, Ethics, Meditations, Religious, Christianity, Nonfiction, Theology, Christian, Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Classics, God

Abstract

One of this century's greatest writers of fact, fiction, and fantasy explores, in utterly beautiful terms, questions of faith in the modern

• On the experience of miracles
• On silence and religious belief
• On the assumed conflict between work and prayer
• On the error of trying to lead “a good life” without Christ
• On the necessity of dogma to religion
• On the dangers of national repentance
• On the commercialization of Christmas . . . and more

Description

The searching mind and the poetic spirit of C.S. Lewis are readily evident in this collection of essays edited by his one-time secretary, Walter Hopper. Here the reader finds the tough-mind polemicist relishing the debate; here too the kindly teacher explaining a complex abstraction by means of clarifying analogies; here the public speaker addressing his varied audience with all the humility and grace of a man who knows how much more remains to be unknown.

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