This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C.S. Lewis brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters and poems, C.S. Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defence of faith, but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and story-telling. In the ESSAY COLLECTION we find a treasure trove of Lewis's reflections on diverse topics.
Table of Content:
Essays
1) The Grand Miracle
2) Is Theology Poetry?
3) The Funeral of a Great Myth
4) God In the Dark
5) What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?
6) The World’s Last Night
7) Is Theism Important?
8) The Seeing Eye
9) Must Our Image of God Go?
10) Christianity and Culture
11) Evil and God
12) The Weight of Glory
13) Miracles
14) Dogma and the Universe
15) The Horrid Red Things
16) Religion: Reality or Substitute?
17) Myth Became Fact
18) Religion and Science
19) Christian Apologetics
20) Work and Prayer
21) Religion Without Dogma?
22) The Decline of Religion
23) Unforgiveness
24) The Pains of Animals
25) Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer
26) On Obstinacy in Belief
27) What Christmas Means to Me
28) The Psalms
29) Religion and Rocketry
30) The Efficacy of Prayer
31) Fern Seed and Elephants
32) The Language of Religion
33) Transposition
34) Why I am Not a Pacifist
35) Dangers of National Repentance
36) Two Ways With the Self
37) Meditation on the Third Commandment
38) On Ethics
39) Three Kinds of Men
40) Answers to Questions on Christianity
41) The Laws of Nature
42) Membership
43) The Sermon and the Lunch
44) Scraps
45) After Priggery – What?
46) Man or Rabbit?
47) The Trouble With X
48) On Living in an Atomic Age
49) Lillies that Fester
50) Good Work and Good Works
51) A Slip of the Tongue
52) We Have No Right to Happiness
53) Christian Reunion: An Anglican Speaks to Roman Catholics
54) Priestesses in the Church?
55) On Church Music
56) Christianity and Literature
57) High and Low Brows
58) Is English Doomed?
59) On the Reading of Old Books
60) The Parthenon and the Optative
61) The Death of Words
62) On Science Fiction
63) Miserable Offenders
64) Different Tastes in Literature
65) Modern Translations of the Bible
66) On Juvenile Tastes
67) Sex in Literature
68) The Hobbit
69) Period Criticism
70) On Stories
71) On Three Ways of Writing for Children
72) Prudery and Philology
73) Tolkein’s “The Lord of the Rings”
74) Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said
75) It All Began With a Picture
76) Unreal Estates
77) On Criticism
78) Cross Examination
79) A Tribute to E.R. Eddison
80) The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard
81) George Orwell
82) A Panegyric for Dorothy L. Sayers
83) The Novels of Charles Williams
84) Learning in War-Time
85) Bulverism (or, The Foundation of 20th Century Thought)
86) The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club
87) My First School
88) Democratic Education
89) Blimpophobia
90) Private Bates
91) Meditation in a Tool Shed
92) On the Transmission of Christianity
93) Modern Man and His Categories of Thought
94) Historicism
95) The Empty Universe
96) Interim Report
97) Is History Bunk?
98) Before We Can Communicate
99) First and Second Things
100) The Poison of Subjectivism
101) Equality
102) De Futilitate
103) A Dream
104) Hedonics
105) Talking About Bicycles
106) Vivisection
107) The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
108) Behind the Scenes
109) The Necessity of Chivalry
110) The Inner Ring
111) Two Lectures
112) Some Thoughts
113) X-mas and Christmas
114) Revival or Decay
115) Delinquents in the Snow
116) Willing Slaves of the Welfare State
117) Screwtape Proposes a Toast
Letters
118) The Conditions for a Just War
119) The Conflict in Anglican Theology
120) Miracles
121) Mr. C.S. Lewis on Christianity
122) A Village Experience
123) Correspondence With an Anglican Who Dislikes Hymns
124) The Church’s Liturgy, Invocation, and Invocation of Saints
125) The Holy Name
126) Mere Christians
127) Canonization
128) Pittenger-Lewis and Version Vernacular
129) Capital Punishment and Death Penalty
Short Stories
130) The Man Born Blind
131) The Dark Tower
132) The Dark Tower (continued)
133) The Dark Tower (continued)
134) Ministering Angels
135) The Shoddy Lands
136) After Ten Years
137) Forms of Things Unknown
Description:
This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C.S. Lewis brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters and poems, C.S. Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defence of faith, but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and story-telling. In the ESSAY COLLECTION we find a treasure trove of Lewis's reflections on diverse topics. Table of Content: Essays 1) The Grand Miracle 2) Is Theology Poetry? 3) The Funeral of a Great Myth 4) God In the Dark 5) What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ? 6) The World’s Last Night 7) Is Theism Important? 8) The Seeing Eye 9) Must Our Image of God Go? 10) Christianity and Culture 11) Evil and God 12) The Weight of Glory 13) Miracles 14) Dogma and the Universe 15) The Horrid Red Things 16) Religion: Reality or Substitute? 17) Myth Became Fact 18) Religion and Science 19) Christian Apologetics 20) Work and Prayer 21) Religion Without Dogma? 22) The Decline of Religion 23) Unforgiveness 24) The Pains of Animals 25) Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer 26) On Obstinacy in Belief 27) What Christmas Means to Me 28) The Psalms 29) Religion and Rocketry 30) The Efficacy of Prayer 31) Fern Seed and Elephants 32) The Language of Religion 33) Transposition 34) Why I am Not a Pacifist 35) Dangers of National Repentance 36) Two Ways With the Self 37) Meditation on the Third Commandment 38) On Ethics 39) Three Kinds of Men 40) Answers to Questions on Christianity 41) The Laws of Nature 42) Membership 43) The Sermon and the Lunch 44) Scraps 45) After Priggery – What? 46) Man or Rabbit? 47) The Trouble With X 48) On Living in an Atomic Age 49) Lillies that Fester 50) Good Work and Good Works 51) A Slip of the Tongue 52) We Have No Right to Happiness 53) Christian Reunion: An Anglican Speaks to Roman Catholics 54) Priestesses in the Church? 55) On Church Music 56) Christianity and Literature 57) High and Low Brows 58) Is English Doomed? 59) On the Reading of Old Books 60) The Parthenon and the Optative 61) The Death of Words 62) On Science Fiction 63) Miserable Offenders 64) Different Tastes in Literature 65) Modern Translations of the Bible 66) On Juvenile Tastes 67) Sex in Literature 68) The Hobbit 69) Period Criticism 70) On Stories 71) On Three Ways of Writing for Children 72) Prudery and Philology 73) Tolkein’s “The Lord of the Rings” 74) Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said 75) It All Began With a Picture 76) Unreal Estates 77) On Criticism 78) Cross Examination 79) A Tribute to E.R. Eddison 80) The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard 81) George Orwell 82) A Panegyric for Dorothy L. Sayers 83) The Novels of Charles Williams 84) Learning in War-Time 85) Bulverism (or, The Foundation of 20th Century Thought) 86) The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club 87) My First School 88) Democratic Education 89) Blimpophobia 90) Private Bates 91) Meditation in a Tool Shed 92) On the Transmission of Christianity 93) Modern Man and His Categories of Thought 94) Historicism 95) The Empty Universe 96) Interim Report 97) Is History Bunk? 98) Before We Can Communicate 99) First and Second Things 100) The Poison of Subjectivism 101) Equality 102) De Futilitate 103) A Dream 104) Hedonics 105) Talking About Bicycles 106) Vivisection 107) The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment 108) Behind the Scenes 109) The Necessity of Chivalry 110) The Inner Ring 111) Two Lectures 112) Some Thoughts 113) X-mas and Christmas 114) Revival or Decay 115) Delinquents in the Snow 116) Willing Slaves of the Welfare State 117) Screwtape Proposes a Toast Letters 118) The Conditions for a Just War 119) The Conflict in Anglican Theology 120) Miracles 121) Mr. C.S. Lewis on Christianity 122) A Village Experience 123) Correspondence With an Anglican Who Dislikes Hymns 124) The Church’s Liturgy, Invocation, and Invocation of Saints 125) The Holy Name 126) Mere Christians 127) Canonization 128) Pittenger-Lewis and Version Vernacular 129) Capital Punishment and Death Penalty Short Stories 130) The Man Born Blind 131) The Dark Tower 132) The Dark Tower (continued) 133) The Dark Tower (continued) 134) Ministering Angels 135) The Shoddy Lands 136) After Ten Years 137) Forms of Things Unknown