Has anyone out there read any of C.S.Lewis books, like Mere Christianity?

Question

.... and if so, is anyone familiar with a book he wrote, titled the Great Divorce? I love that analogy and wish that someone would make it into a movie. I'd like to know what others think about it.

Answer 1

Oh, I love C.S. Lewis! I have read Mere Christianity a few times, as well as The great divorce, but it has been some time now. The Screwtape letters are another great one, and give a great perspective on what is very likely going on all around us. In Mere Christianity, if you try to underline your favorite quotes, I found I need to just give up, because so much of it is amazing. He is just an amazing thinker, and writer. There is so much more to him than just the Chronicles of Narnia. I hope more people read him. Would love to see that book made into a movie somehow, it would be interesting for sure.

Answer 2

I read Mere Christianity. I would summarize the book's main thesis as follows:

According to C.S. Lewis Jesus was either what he claimed to be or he was crazy. Lewis reasons that Jesus was not crazy because crazy people don't do miracles or resurrect from the dead. Thus, Lewis concludes, Jesus could only have been the divine son of God and savior of us all.

The logic seemed simplistic to me. The book assumes that the mainstream Christian interpretation of the New Testament is correct. It assumes that the miracles described in the New Testament were real. It assumes that Jesus claimed to be God --and I can't find anything in the NT where Jesus claimed to be God.

I also read the Screwtape Letters which is a mildly entertaining fantasy about demons. And I started to read The Chronicles of Narnia but gave it up because it didn't hold my interest.

No disrespect to C.S. Lewis but I'm not a big fan.

Answer 3

I haven't read the Great Divorce, but I'm a big fan of The Screwtape Letters. C.S. Lewis' work is sheer genius!

Answer 4

1). yes.
2). no.


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