Christian Reflections
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In Christian Reflections, C.S. Lewis brings his vast and original intellect to bear on a wealth of subjects, including ethics, historicism, Christianity, and culture. This selection of essays and papers, drawn from all stages of his career, presents Lewis at his most varied and profound.
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Top Highlights
“The avoiding, in many times and places, has proved so difficult that a very large part of the human race failed to achieve it. But in our own time and place it is extremely easy. Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them very carefully. But you’d be safer to stick to the papers. You’ll find the advertisements helpful; especially those with a sexy or a snobbish appeal.” (Pages 168–169)
“On the whole, the New Testament seemed, if not hostile, yet unmistakably cold to culture. I think we can still believe culture to be innocent after we have read the New Testament; I cannot see that we are encouraged to think it important.” (Page 15)
“Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of scepticism about scepticism itself.” (Page 162)
“A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility” (Page 14)
“A theology which denies the historicity of nearly everything in the Gospels to which Christian life and affections and thought have been fastened for nearly two millennia—which either denies the miraculous altogether or, more strangely, after swallowing the camel of the Resurrection strains at such gnats as the feeding of the multitudes—if offered to the uneducated man can produce only one or other of two effects. It will make him a Roman Catholic or an atheist. What you offer him he will not recognize as Christianity.” (Page 153)
This volume will be of special interest to people whose philosophy runs to futility, determinism, and atheism.
—Chicago Tribune
Christian Reflections brings C.S. Lewis’ genius to a ready public. His fidelity to eternal verities comes like a clean, refreshing breeze to air increasingly polluted by ‘dialogues’ of the unsure.
—Moody Monthly
Refreshing originality. . . A book that will both stimulate and tantalize.
—Review and Expositor
- Title: Christian Reflections
- Author: C.S. Lewis
- Publisher: HarperOne
- Publication Date: 2014
- Pages: 190
- Christian Group: Evangelicals and Anglican
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Christianity and Culture
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than 30 books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classic Mere Christianity.