While C. S. Lewis didn’t regard his books as allegories (as Bunyan did with Pilgrims Progress), but there are enough parallels in them between the gospel and some of the events for them to be useful to parents to teach the gospel to their children. The vividness of the books (to say nothing of the […]
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It’s always a joy to read biographies. Its an even bigger joy to read autobiographies where the author explains their conversion to Christ. Last week I read “Surprised by Joy” by C. S. Lewis. Last Monday I posted a synopsis of his conversion from atheism to Christianity, but I also wanted to follow this up with
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C. S. Lewis traces his conversion story through his autobiography “Surprised by Joy” from his early childhood through to his conversion to Christ as an adult. As the story unfolds, he traces the “aesthetic experience” of “joy” as an experience that “was valuable only as a pointer to something other and outer.” Early in his life,
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