Miracles by C. S. Lewis (eBook)

Thanks OP! Huge fan of CS Lewis!

Good price to own... but if you want to just get through it and rent it, try your local library. They may have a digital option to rent a download of the audiobook for X amount of time

C.S. Lewis was universalist. Beware.

Thank you OP for posting. Repped

Quote from RunningOnEmpty : C.S. Lewis was universalist. Beware.

Thanks for this warning.

I'm told this is a very powerful book.
I plan to get to it someday. Thanks!
TU&R!

Quote from RunningOnEmpty : C.S. Lewis was universalist. Beware.

What he was shouldn't impact who you are, so long as you feel confident enough in reading opinions outside of your own. Heaven forbid, a new perspective rears its ugly head that is incongruent with your own. The horror!

Regardless, he was both a great thinker and writer. Good luck.

Exactly why I follow Slickdeals! Great author, excellent book but mostly great deal! Bought!

Quote from Necron : I'm told this is a very powerful book. I plan to get to it someday. Thanks! TU&R!

some day? why not now when it's $2?? waiting until it's affordable?

Quote from RunningOnEmpty : C.S. Lewis was universalist. Beware.

meaning what?

Quote from Lunatic_Heretic : some day? why not now when it's $2?? waiting until it's affordable?

Actually, this is not the book I was thinking of. I'm sure it is a great book, but his "Mere Christianity" is the one I was thinking of. I found it for free via Libby as an audio book, probably the same place I can find this one, if not the B&M library.

Quote from RunningOnEmpty : C.S. Lewis was universalist. Beware.

That is debatable.

https://www.desiringgod.org/artic...m-humanity

So-called "Christians" (most of which are actually Paulists because they follow the writings of Paul rather than the teachings of Jesus) often use Lewis' books the way multi-level marketing types use Napoleon Hill's books (such as "Think and Grow Rich"). They offer arguments that sound good if you are just wanting something to believe in, but they don't hold up if you apply critical thinking skills. As an example, here is a quote from Wikipedia's article on C.S. Lewis (footnote references removed, but you can read them if you visit the Wikipedia page):

"Trilemma"
Main article: Lewis's trilemma

In a much-cited passage from Mere Christianity, Lewis challenged the view that Jesus was a great moral teacher but not God. He argued that Jesus made several implicit claims to divinity, which would logically exclude that claim:

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

Although this argument is sometimes called "Lewis's trilemma", Lewis did not invent it but rather developed and popularised it. It has also been used by Christian apologist Josh McDowell in his book More Than a Carpenter. It has been widely repeated in Christian apologetic literature, but largely ignored by professional theologians and biblical scholars.

Lewis's Christian apologetics, and this argument in particular, have been criticized. Philosopher John Beversluis described Lewis's arguments as "textually careless and theologically unreliable", and this particular argument as logically unsound and an example of a false dilemma. The Pluralist theologian John Hick claimed that New Testament scholars do not now support the view that Jesus claimed to be God. The Anglican New Testament scholar N. T. Wright criticizes Lewis for failing to recognise the significance of Jesus' Jewish identity and setting – an oversight which "at best, drastically short-circuits the argument" and which lays Lewis open to criticism that his argument "doesn't work as history, and it backfires dangerously when historical critics question his reading of the gospels", although he argues that this "doesn't undermine the eventual claim".

Lewis used a similar argument in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when the old Professor advises his young guests that their sister's claims of a magical world must logically be taken as either lies, madness, or truth.

(End quote from Wikipedia).

I consider much of Lewis' work as religious propaganda. I am not saying not to read it, because it can be helpful in understanding how some religious people first came to their beliefs. All I am saying is that if you are prone to accepting simplistic arguments without bothering to check on their validity or trying to understand the criticisms against them, you may find yourself in the same position as someone who has been induced to join a multi-level marketing organization simply because they could not come up with a good reason not to, where you lose most of your current friends and your family keeps their distance because they don't want to hear you keep talking about this stuff. But, you'll gain new "friends" who will pretend to "love" you at first, but if your eyes are open you'll soon figure out that they are really only interested in what you can do for them. If you don't contribute in some way and echo their beliefs, you'll find that their "love" for you evaporates like water in the desert on a very hot day.