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Posted: 9/7/2013 9:24:16 AM EDT
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Robert Gundry has a couple commentaries that are pretty good.
If you have an e-reader you can get john Calvin and st Thomas Aquinas collections for almost free. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 9:34:08 AM EDT
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Screw tape letters |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 9:34:22 AM EDT
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I'm currently checking out Mere Christianity. I'm new to philosophical type books. Kinda blowing my mind a little. 
Anyone else read it? Similar books? Preferably no 2000 page novels. Tim Keller's "The Reason for God" can be seen as a contemporary version of Mere Christianity. Written in the same vein as MC, but addressing current issues. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 9:57:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I cannot seem to wrap my mind around his writing style. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I cannot seem to wrap my mind around his writing style. helps if you think of him as an old, slightly eccentric but very wise uncle telling you a story, rather than an author writing a story. picture the environment he was writing in--ancient oxford, old mahogany furniture, fire going in the fireplace...just a slower, very english countryside pace of existence. helps to read him this way.
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Posted: 9/7/2013 10:06:22 AM EDT
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I read it a long time ago. Lots of circular reasoning and other problems. I wasn't impressed. Go to hell.
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Posted: 9/7/2013 10:54:56 AM EDT
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For purely Christian philosophy, Augustine: City of God is a life changing work and one that should be read by almost anyone interested in religion. I'm very clearly a City of Man individual and will remain so. But Christian, fallen Christian, and non Christian should read the work. It's brilliant. I agree completely but would recommend The Confessions over it. More approachable and the final book - a reflection on the nature of human memory, cognition and identity - is startlingly modern in its ideas. Augustine was called the First Modern Man by some and it's easy to see why. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 10:57:36 AM EDT
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I like his early thrillers better. His novels from the late 50's on are pretty obvious. A guy questioning whether his life has any meaning is named Querry? Ouch. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Anyone who likes CS Lewis would do well to read some Graham Greene. Same perspective but his fiction is more adult themed. The novella he wrote for The Third Man is fantastic. I like his early thrillers better. His novels from the late 50's on are pretty obvious. A guy questioning whether his life has any meaning is named Querry? Ouch. I agree with that. The Third Man, Brighton Rock and The Heart of the Matter are my favorites. Just watched Our Man in Havana, the one with Alec Guiness, great flick. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 11:08:04 AM EDT
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Love it. Suggest you also read The Screwtape Letters.
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Posted: 9/7/2013 11:11:05 AM EDT
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The Screwtape Letters. Awesome book!! |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 11:12:17 AM EDT
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When you finish it, I suggest, from the bottom of my heart, that you get ahold of everything Francis Schaeffer ever wrote, and start reading his 'trilogy'.
The language is a bit dated, but once you grasp some of the concepts he speaks of, he really comes alive. 
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Posted: 9/7/2013 11:17:12 AM EDT
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A woman I loved very much gave me that book the first year we were together. Pains me still to this day to read it even though I am now happily married. FCSL....
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Posted: 9/7/2013 11:36:51 AM EDT
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Nope I watched the Narnia movies
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Posted: 9/7/2013 11:36:58 AM EDT
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I've read his complete works over the years and cherish them. Probably my favorite author.
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Posted: 9/7/2013 11:48:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A horse and his boy is still my favorite but Mere Christianity still blows the mind. I havent read it in a while though.  My second favorite in the Narnia series. I love the account of Shasta just arriving at the Hermit's house, and immediately having to run to warn King Lune, and the ensuing battle. Magician's Nephew is my favorite. Since no one's mentioned it yet, Lewis' The Great Divorce is a great read. It's about giving up the things that bind us to earth and keep us from reaching heaven. One of the instructors at my church did he PhD dissertation on C. S. Lewis. The teacher works Lewis into almost every lesson, along with George MacDonald and GK Chesterton. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 11:52:28 AM EDT
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I've always regarded C.S. Lewis as one of the great writers of modern times.
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:05:43 PM EDT
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Wasn't C.S. Lewis a socialist? I sort of got a feel of a bit of left-leaning in his ideology.
NM, must have been thinking of another author....
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:06:59 PM EDT
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Good science fiction writer
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:07:29 PM EDT
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I do know that C.S. Lewis was anti-gun...
In "Out of the Silent Planet", he referred to a gun as a "coward's weapon."  |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:08:09 PM EDT
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Read "The Abolition of Man", it is his best work. Yes it is |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:09:57 PM EDT
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I do know that C.S. Lewis was anti-gun... In "Out of the Silent Planet", he referred to a gun as a "coward's weapon."
He'd kinda had his fill of war and violence. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:13:11 PM EDT
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tag
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:13:32 PM EDT
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Good science fiction writer Oh, you. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:21:50 PM EDT
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I have enjoyed his works most if my life. I can still hear my 6th grade teacher reading to the class The Chronicles of Narnia like it was yesterday.
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:30:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh, you. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Good science fiction writer Oh, you. You do realize he *DID* write science fiction, right? |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:35:09 PM EDT
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I got the Screwtape Letters on Audio Book and will probably start it Monday. Finished Mere Christianity today at work. Probably rotate them back and forth a few times until I get ten percent of what he's talking about.
The MC hit me a few times, specifically about what he said about pride and charitable giving. I replayed both of those a few times and played them for my wife when I got home. I can't even grasp enough to explain the other part I liked. Something about God loves a simple minded man trying hard more than a genius giving half effort. I need to mark the time on that too so I can go back and listen again. Thanks for the other suggestions. I'll probably work my way through them as well. I have tapped a previously wasted opportunity for expansion. I used to spend hours a day listening to music I didn't really even like. 
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Posted: 9/7/2013 1:43:52 PM EDT
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I got the Screwtape Letters on Audio Book and will probably start it Monday. Finished Mere Christianity today at work. Probably rotate them back and forth a few times until I get ten percent of what he's talking about.
The MC hit me a few times, specifically about what he said about pride and charitable giving. I replayed both of those a few times and played them for my wife when I got home. I can't even grasp enough to explain the other part I liked. Something about God loves a simple minded man trying hard more than a genius giving half effort. I need to mark the time on that too so I can go back and listen again. Thanks for the other suggestions. I'll probably work my way through them as well. I have tapped a previously wasted opportunity for expansion. I used to spend hours a day listening to music I didn't really even like. At some point buy the books, much easier to reread than rewind when trying to understand his thinking. I must say that the narrator in the audio version of MC is a really great speaker. I doubt CS Lewis would improve on the delivery. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 2:58:14 PM EDT
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I'm currently checking out Mere Christianity. I'm new to philosophical type books. Kinda blowing my mind a little.
Anyone else read it? Similar books? Preferably no 2000 page novels. Screwtape Letters is good as well. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 3:12:26 PM EDT
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Tim Keller's "The Reason for God" can be seen as a contemporary version of Mere Christianity. Written in the same vein as MC, but addressing current issues. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm currently checking out Mere Christianity. I'm new to philosophical type books. Kinda blowing my mind a little.
Anyone else read it? Similar books? Preferably no 2000 page novels. Tim Keller's "The Reason for God" can be seen as a contemporary version of Mere Christianity. Written in the same vein as MC, but addressing current issues. Keller's book on Post Modernism is excellent. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 3:36:45 PM EDT
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For balance, you should consider The God Delusion and God Is Not Great.
Narnia was excellent.
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Posted: 9/7/2013 4:08:20 PM EDT
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For balance, you should consider The God Delusion and God Is Not Great. I don't need help inflating my ego or having an overly high opinion of my importance in this world.
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Posted: 9/7/2013 7:01:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: For balance, you should consider The God Delusion and God Is Not Great. Narnia was excellent. The major difference is that Lewis argues for religion and faith in God. He spends only dashes of time arguing against atheism. The former two dedicate the majority of their books arguing against religion. Only by tearing down religion do they support atheism. Think about that for a moment. Dawkins and Hitchens actually go on the offensive against religion. There is a lot of angst and bitterness in those books. C.S. Lewis is welcoming, compassionate, and heartfelt in his books. They provide no balance, just a rise in blood pressure to anyone secure in their beliefs. Their's is a paradigm that is so different than my own that their point of view was impossible for my eyes to even envision. |
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Posted: 9/7/2013 7:23:08 PM EDT
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The screwtape letters... It'll scare you straight.
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Posted: 9/8/2013 7:00:27 AM EDT
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The screwtape letters... It'll scare you straight. I read the Wiki on it. Looks good. I may start it tonight. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters |
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Posted: 9/9/2013 12:32:37 PM EDT
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One of my favorite quotes of his:
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 a 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 patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. --C.S.Lewis |
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Posted: 9/9/2013 12:44:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Screwtape Letters. fwiw I know that a downloadable (probably illegal) copy used to be available  . Did not listen to these from YouTube, but surely YouTube would not allow the posting of copyrighted material. |
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Posted: 9/9/2013 1:18:26 PM EDT
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There could not be a further gulf between Hitchens/Dawkins and C.S. Lewis. The major difference is that Lewis argues for religion and faith in God. He spends only dashes of time arguing against atheism. The former two dedicate the majority of their books arguing against religion. Only by tearing down religion do they support atheism. Think about that for a moment. Dawkins and Hitchens actually go on the offensive against religion. There is a lot of angst and bitterness in those books. C.S. Lewis is welcoming, compassionate, and heartfelt in his books. They provide no balance, just a rise in blood pressure to anyone secure in their beliefs. Their's is a paradigm that is so different than my own that their point of view was impossible for my eyes to even envision. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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For balance, you should consider The God Delusion and God Is Not Great.
Narnia was excellent.
There could not be a further gulf between Hitchens/Dawkins and C.S. Lewis. The major difference is that Lewis argues for religion and faith in God. He spends only dashes of time arguing against atheism. The former two dedicate the majority of their books arguing against religion. Only by tearing down religion do they support atheism. Think about that for a moment. Dawkins and Hitchens actually go on the offensive against religion. There is a lot of angst and bitterness in those books. C.S. Lewis is welcoming, compassionate, and heartfelt in his books. They provide no balance, just a rise in blood pressure to anyone secure in their beliefs. Their's is a paradigm that is so different than my own that their point of view was impossible for my eyes to even envision. Not surprising. |
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Posted: 9/9/2013 1:23:52 PM EDT
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I read it twenty plus years ago and still remember his amazing argument for the existence of God by closely looking at a tree and really thinking about all that went into creating it.
His fiction as well as his nonfiction were both great in my opinion. I read a bunch of both at one point and liked them all. |
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Posted: 9/9/2013 6:31:34 PM EDT
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Or find the auto book reading of them by John Cleese (of Monte Python) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBxpcGfznos fwiw I know that a downloadable (probably illegal) copy used to be available . Did not listen to these from YouTube, but surely YouTube would not allow the posting of copyrighted material.
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The Screwtape Letters. fwiw I know that a downloadable (probably illegal) copy used to be available . Did not listen to these from YouTube, but surely YouTube would not allow the posting of copyrighted material.
I made it through the first 28 letters today.
Really all I've learned is that I wanna read the books. Especially Screwtape letters. I'm catching so little of the whole message it's not even funny. Mere Christianity I think I could work my way through a few times on audiobook. SL needs to be read for the full effect. |
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Posted: 9/10/2013 10:31:48 AM EDT
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Anyone read the pilgrims progress that Lewis mentions in MC? It's wiki says " It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, [1][2][3][4] has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. [5][6]"
I've never heard of it. |
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Posted: 9/10/2013 10:40:25 AM EDT
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I'm currently checking out Mere Christianity. I'm new to philosophical type books. Kinda blowing my mind a little.
Anyone else read it? Similar books? Preferably no 2000 page novels. Just by one of the collections in one volume. All of his works are really worth a read. I particurly love "The Great Divorce". |
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Posted: 9/10/2013 10:41:53 AM EDT
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Anyone read the pilgrims progress that Lewis mentions in MC? It's wiki says " It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, [1][2][3][4] has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. [5][6]" I've never heard of it. See my last comment. Yes. And it's good. Lifeway has a collection with the Pilgrims Progress and God in the Dock for less than $20. |
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Posted: 9/24/2013 6:28:28 AM EDT
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Made it through Mere Christianity about a half dozen times and getting ready to order it in paper back. Listened to the screw tape letters. Needs to be read for the full effect I think. It's next after MC. Making my way through this threads list as well.
Any others recommended? |
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Posted: 9/24/2013 6:38:22 AM EDT
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Read "The Abolition of Man", it is his best work. +1 A short book and a great read. |
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Posted: 9/24/2013 6:51:42 AM EDT
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Anyone read the pilgrims progress that Lewis mentions in MC? It's wiki says " It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, [1][2][3][4] has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. [5][6]" I've never heard of it. I have the free version on my kindle. I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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