9780151001859
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
C. S. Lewis
ISBN 13: 9780151001859
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
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An unfailingly honest and acutely perceptive observer of self, C. S. Lewis vividly recounts the spiritual journey that led him from a conventionally Christian childhood in Belfast to a youthful atheism and, finally, back to an assured Christianity. Lewis describes his early schooldays, his experiences in the trenches during World War I, and undergraduate life at Oxford - where he found himself drawn back to God. Yet it is perhaps the rational aspect of his conversion that makes Lewis's story so compelling, especially to contemporary readers. He is, most persuasively, a modern man who has thought his way to God. Initially published in 1955, Lewis's journey - his "surprise" - continues to be of first importance to admirers of his work and today, more than ever, to anyone concerned with the compatibility of the rational and the spiritual.
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"Anyone approaching this book as a study in the psychology of conversion will find the greatest interest in the dual paths--intellectual and intuitive--which converged at last. But the casual reader looking merely for an enjoyable book will equally value many other parts."
Chad Walsh, Saturday Review
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Book Description: Harcourt November 1995, 1995. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. '. As I stood before a flowering currant bush on a summer day there suddenly arose in me without warning, and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries, the memory of that earlier morning. It is difficult to find words for the sensation; of course, of desire; but desire for what?.and before I knew what I desired, the desire itself was gone, the whole glimpse withdrawn, the world turned commonplace again, or only stirred by a longing for the longing that had just ceased. It had taken only a moment of time; and in a certain sense everything else that has ever happened to me was insignificant by comparison.' (from the book). In a sense, the rest of Lewis's remarkable pilgrimage from atheism to theism and finally to Christian faith was but the unfolding of this early childhood experience, and its interaction with his parallel intellectual development. This autobiographical narrative is fundamental to understanding any of Lewis's other work, besides being typically wonderfully written and revelatory. 248 pp. Bookseller Inventory # 87968 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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