C.S. Lewis' ideas about moral law are also worthwhile. According to Lewis, moral law is not necessarily tied to any religion, including Christianity. eligion is a vehicle for the dissemination of moral law but ultimately even non-religious people can understand the difference between right and wrong. His views show that Lewis accepts all faiths and even atheism as being acceptable and I respect that point-of-view. Morality is not necessarily related to religion.

Finally, I like that Lewis discusses free will with regards to moral law. Moral laws are immutable, but can nevertheless be broken by willful human beings. Lewis is careful to show that free will does not negate the absolute nature of moral law. ather, the author argues that human beings must continually strive to transcend their egos toward a more spiritual way of life. In that sense, mere Christianity is for everyone.

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Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity.

This is a metaphor for what all human beings must do in regards to God, as few people on earth are granted physical proof of God's existence, with the exception perhaps of the saints. Psyche, the bride of what she thinks is a nature-god initially accepts his goodness as a fact, until she is dissuaded. This is a metaphor for how life causes people to lose their first faith in God and mistrust their heart.
Is Psyche's trust in her husband's command noble or foolish? She accuses her sister of being foolish. Is Psyche being childlike, or is her sister being deceitful when she urges Psyche to challenge her husband with a trick?

Thesis III

Now Psyche goes out in exile. Now she must hunger and thirst and tread the hard roads" (173) in her quest for knowledge, Psyche, like Adam and Eve, is punished and she must go out into the…...

Belief comes easily for Lewis: "Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not: 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.'...Of course it's easy enough to say that God seems absent at our greatest need because He is absent -- non-existent. But then why does He seem so present when, to put it frankly, we don't ask for Him?" (Lewis, p. 5) In short, Lewis is tormented by the question of how can one believe in a good God, a God worthy of belief, in a world of suffering, where loss is part of human existence?
Chapter 3

Ultimately, even in a world riddled with loss, Lewis insists on affirming the goodness of the world,…...

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Works Cited

Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2001.

C.S. Lewis writes the Screwtape Letters
Lewis: The Screwtape Letters

In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis discusses Christianity once again, this time from the point of the demon Screwtape, who puzzles over God and cannot understand what he needs to in order to gain more knowledge. He tried to destroy faith, but he is so limited in his knowledge and understanding of God that he is not very good at what he is trying to do. He wonders about God several times throughout the book because he cannot understand that God does not win people by wooing them away from the devil and bending them to his will by his punishment, but rather he wins them to him by showing them love and allowing them to be themselves. That does not mean that there are no rules, but only that they are not turned into copies of Him in the same way…...

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Works Cited

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942.

Lewis: The Problem of Pain
According to Lewis, there is a reason that a loving, caring, compassionate, and concerned God would still allow the suffering of the human beings that he created. In his book The Problem of Pain, Lewis states that human beings believe that living a life that was pain-free would mean that God loves us. hen we suffer pain we think that God is angry with us and does not loves us and therefore we have a hard time reconciling the idea that He loves us so much but yet allows us to suffer. In truth, the idea of suffering has much more to do with God very much loving all of the individuals that he has created (Lewis, 104).

Lewis's argument continues in the idea that pain and suffering is what God uses to prepare us for the glories that Heaven will bestow upon us what we die.…...

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Works Cited

Lewis, C.S. The Problem of Pain. London: Geoffrey Bles, Centenary Press,1940

God, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and the meaning of Life
Dr. Armand J. Nicholi, Jr.

Full Book Title: The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love and Sex and The Meaning of Life

Complete Publishing Information: New York: Free Press, 2003.

Armand J. Nicholi covers a wide spectrum of philosophical beliefs in his work of non-fiction, The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love and Sex, and the Meaning of Life. Essentially, this manuscript pits the tenets of Sigmund Freud vs. those of C.S. Lewis in regards to one of the key questions of metaphysics -- whether or not there is a God, and if so or if not, how that reality should impact the living. The viewpoints of these two men were diametrically opposed on this subject. Freud was a staunch atheist all of his life, a champion of…...

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References

Nicholi, A. (2003). The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love and Sex and The Meaning of Life. New York: Free Press.

Open Letter to CS Lewis egarding the Good Life, with Special eference to That Hideous Strength
Dear Mr. Lewis,

I think you would agree that good is a moral term, denoting things that are morally defensible. The good life, therefore, would be living a life in accordance to moral values. You seem to explore the concept of morality in your novel, That Hideous Strength. Of all the characters that populate this novel, Mark and Jane Studdock show the greatest degree of moral development and maturity. In fact, one may argue that other than their central usage to the plot, the author has characterized them in the story in order to demonstrate the values of virtue and the hope for humanity that goodness inherently provides. What is even more interesting about these two characters is the fact that their moral development is far from parallel -- the spouses take individual routes to discovering…...

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References

Lewis, C.S. That Hideous Strength. New York: Scribner. 1996. Print.

Meilaender, Gilbert. "On Moral Knowledge." The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis. 2013. Print.

Simon, Caroline J. "On Love." Cambridge University Press. 2010. Print.

Christian?
The author C.. Lewis once wrote that, "We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins and that by dying He has disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity." Though I agree with the truth of this statement, on reflection I believe that each Christian must establish their own reasons for their faith. The most important principles in my understanding of Christianity are the power of personal testimonies, how individuals live their lives and the power of local churches to influence their communities in positive directions. It is through these three core concepts that not only can one's faith be enhanced but as Christians we can grow our congregation and strengthen both the people in our lives and even total strangers.

Personal Testimonies (Topic 7)

God is always at work in the world around us. By reading Christian testimonies, we…...

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Sources: Core Christianity, What is Christianity all about? Elmer Towns 2007.

McGrath's comments above suggest periods of conceptual adjustment as observers of the Christian faith worked to make explanations for the presence, even the commonality, of sin as it exists in spite of God's innate goodness.
So again, to the idea that Christianity's incredible facets couldn't rationally be reached by outsiders to the faith with some guesswork does not hold up against the process by which we know Christianity came to be. McGrath points out that in this discussion on how best to reconcile sin with God's innate goodness, Christianity was in a place of coming into its own identity. Answering questions such as this quandary on the dualism of good and evil would be very much a part of 'guessing' the structure of Christian faith as it were, but directly within the framework allowed by the basic tenets relating to God, man and the universe.

The text by Lewis demonstrates this…...

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References:

Lewis, C.S., Mere Christianity. Harper San Francisco, 2001.

McGrath, A.E., Theology: The Basics, Wiley-Blackewell; 1st edition, 2004.

Polkinghorne, J., Belief in God in an Age of Science. Yale University Press, 2003.

" (Polkinghorne, p. 4)
As with Lewis before him in our discussion, Polkinghorne supplies a reason for the certainty of God's presence in scientific affairs most simply because he believes there is no other more likely or rational explanation for certain accomplishments. Like Lewis, Polkinghorne simply places beyond the grasp of human capacity a certain loosely defined category of things that must inherently be accounted for by the unseen power of a higher being called God. This premise is a surprising one to extend from a discussion extolling the beauty of scientific accomplishments in that it satisfies itself on the basis of highly unempirical arguments. The central premise of Polkinghorne's text mirrors both in the blindness of its faith and the flaws in its presentation the central premise of Lewis' assertion. Namely, both proceed from the idea that because there are remarkable things for which explanations appear to be so unreachable,…...

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Works Cited:

Lewis, C.S. (2001). Mere Christianity. Harper San Francisco.

McGrath, A.E. (2004). Theology: The Basics. Wiley-Blackewell; 1st edition.

Polkinghorne, J. (2003). Belief in God in an Age of Science. Yale University Press.

Lewis writes a Grief Observed
Lewis: A Grief Observed

In C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed, Lewis talks of the process of grief. Specifically, he discusses this process through a long and painful and journey which deals with the death of his wife. While he is not interested in going back he does talk about his love for his wife Joy and how this particular experience of grief meshes with ideas that he has expressed in some of the earlier things that he's written. Even though he spends much time revisiting the memories of the past he says that he finds that he is terrified by the idea of going back and being happy begin in that same way (Lewis, 70). He goes through various stages of grief and his faith undergoes much analysis and reflection. Sometimes he remembers some of the things about Joy that affect him very strongly.

He discusses the idea…...

It is possible that Lewis had not intended certain matters from his books to have the effects that they eventually had on the public. It had most probably been because of the fact that he did not planned for a large amount of time before deciding to write the series. In contrast, Tolkien had prepared The Lord of the Rings for several decades, studying various geographical locations and history before he decided to proceed in writing.

In spite of being the sixth book from the Narnia series published by Lewis, The Magician's Nephew describes the first period when considering Narnian years. In this book, two children named Digory and Polly end up in magical universes in 1900 consequent to coming across two rings which have supernatural powers. One world in particular appears to be different from the others to Polly and Digory, and, after a chain of unfortunate incidents, they bring…...

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Works cited:

1. Caughey Shanna. (2005). "Revisiting Narnia: fantasy, myth, and religion in C.S. Lewis' chronicles." BenBella Books.

2. King, Don W. "Gold Mining or Gold Digging? The Selling of Narnia." Christianity and Literature, Vol. 55, 2006.

3. Lewis, C.S. (2004). "The chronicles of Narnia." HarperCollins.

4. Sammons, Martha C. (2004). "A Guide Through Narnia." Regent College Publishing.

In showing the strength of his Christian faith and the rhetoric behind his revelations, Lewis uses the theme of his wife's death as a rhetorical devise. Lewis provides a rationale for the death of his wife in the context of grief. He argues, "[T]here's no denying that in some sense I 'feel better,' and with that comes at once a sort of shame, and a feeling that one is under a sort of obligation to cherish and foment and prolong one's unhappiness." Lewis within this passage concludes that prolonged grief after the death of his wife is a selfish act, because it is a pretense of "heroic love and tragedy." In putting forth this claim, Lewis carefully begins both his recovery and the explanation of his reaffirmation in Christianity. He cloaks this revelation in pessimism, "Praise in due order; of Him as the giver, of her as the gift. I…...

Lewis
Relativist said, 'The world does not exist, England does not exist, Oxford does not exist and I am confident that I do not Exist!' When Lewis was asked to reply, he stood up and said, 'How am I to talk to a man who's not there?'" (Schultz, 1998)

Lewis: A iography

This quote shows how, in truly CS Lewis style, the writer took the everyday questions about religion and faith, tacking them head-on. Lewis was a Christian writer who was deeply influenced by the teachings of God and His Scripture.

CS Lewis was born, in 1898, in elfast, Ireland. He was educated at various schools throughout England (Hooper, 1996). In 1914, he began studying Latin, Greek, French, German and Italian and later moved to Oxford. His education was disrupted by the first World War but within two years, he resumed his studies.

In 1924, Lewis became a teacher of Literature and Language at Magdalen…...

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Bibliography

Adey, Lionel. C.S. Lewis, Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor W.B. Eerdmans Pub, 1998.

Beversluis, John. C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. W.B. Eerdmans, 1985.

C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms, (1958) New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (p. 64).

C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain. Macmillian, 1962.

The intent or purpose of this book was originally intended to be a science fiction written to meet a bet, but it ended up being the first book in a trilogy with the theme of describing how pitiful human beings are and how far from our original purpose on the earth - that is to tend it and make it plentiful, and to care for one another. C.S. Lewis was a Christian and this Christian theme permeates all of his novels. The theme of the book is that earth is seen by inhabitants of another planet as being valuable, but the humans are a problem when they think of inhabiting our planet. Oyarsa may be an angel and seems to care for the earth and sends Ransom back with a mission to make the earth better. This theme of bettering the planet Earth is the main one, plus Lewis has…...

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Works Cited

Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet. New York: Scribner. 1 Jun 1996.