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50th Anniversary of Death of C.S. Lewis Observed

50th Anniversary of Death of C.S. Lewis Observed. CPC Adult Education November 17 th , 2013. Background. Clive Staples Lewis born in Belfast in 1898 Mother died of cancer when he was 10, his father sent him to boarding school As a teen, he became an atheist

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50th Anniversary of Death of C.S. Lewis Observed

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  1. 50th Anniversary of Death of C.S. Lewis Observed CPC Adult Education November 17th, 2013

  2. Background • Clive Staples Lewis born in Belfast in 1898 • Mother died of cancer when he was 10, his father sent him to boarding school • As a teen, he became an atheist • Conscripted into WWI, reinforced his belief God doesn’t exist • Professor at Oxford, member of the “Inklings” • Reluctantly began reexamining Christianity

  3. Background • Came back to God, feeling “the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet” • Accepted God and “became the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England” • Apostle to the Skeptics, Christian Apologetic • Lost his wife of 4 years to cancer • Passed away Nov. 22nd, 1963 due to renal failure

  4. Books • The Pilgrim’s Regress • Follows a traveler through a philosophical journey, beginning (and ending) at Christianity • The Space Trilogy • Mars is banished from the solar system, Venus as a new Garden, scientists working with demons • The Chronicles of Narnia • Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, Miracles • All 3 sought to refute popular objections to God

  5. Science and faith • Lewis was an intellectual, using logic in his defense of Christianity. • Respond to this quote by a nuclear physicist: • I was attracted by Lewis's cogent logic couched in relaxed, everyday language. Apparently one could be a serious Christian without either shutting off one's brain or becoming a theologian! • How do you understand the relationship between science and faith?

  6. The Jesus Trilemma • Helping those who foolishly say ‘I accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God’ • Jesus as lunatic, liar, or Lord • Jesus wasn’t crazy, wasn’t evil, so therefore must be God • Are there other options beyond what Lewis proposes?

  7. Quotes "I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ... God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ... If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. ... Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." --Mere Christianity

  8. Quotes "Christianity, if false, is of no importance and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important." --God in the Dock "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." --The Problem of Pain

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