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"This short book is a distillation of what Lewis thought about the greatest questions of life"--Book jacket.

Fifty years after his death, C.S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia, and an atheist-turned-Christian thinker. In C.S. Lewis-A Life, Alister McGrath, prolific author and respected professor at King's College of London, paints a definitive portrait of the life of C.S. Lewis....

Demonstrates how C.S. Lewis used the characteristics from seven medieval planets to construct the cosmological themes in "The Chronicles of Narnia."

A biography of the author of "The Chronicles of Narnia" who converted from atheism to Christianity.

"After Humanity is a guide to one of C.S. Lewis's most widely admired but least accessible works, The Abolition of Man, which originated as a series of lectures on ethics that he delivered during the Second World War. These lectures tackle the thorny question of whether moral value is objective or not. When we say something is right or wrong, are we recognizing a reality outside ourselves, or merely reporting a subjective sentiment? Lewis addresses...

C.S. Lewis has been called the "Apostle to the skeptics" -- responsible, perhaps, for bringing more people to Christianity than any evangelist of the 20th Century. Although Lewis was a staunch Ulster-born Anglican, although he invariably eschewed denominational questions in favor of what he called "Mere Christianity," and although he refused to convert to Catholicism, a surprising phenomenon has occurred over the years: many of those whom Lewis influenced...

Unabridged reading (6 audio discs) of C.S. Lewis's book, Mere Christianity, based on a series of 1942-1944 BBC radio talks while Lewis was at Oxford during World War II, and audio drama (2 audio discs) of C.S. Lewis's life and the events behind the creation of his classic work. Mere Christianity was originally written for a generation that had lost its faith, against a background of the hard realities of World War I and World War II and the personal...

Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenge his unbelief.

Meet the brilliant writer, fiercely independent mother, and passionate woman who captured the heart of C.S. Lewis and inspired the books that still enchant and change us today, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea.

When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding

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Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there's no way she can refuse. Megs soon finds herself taking tea with the Oxford don and...