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A TIMELESS AND INSPIRING AFFIRMATION OF FAITH IN THE FACE OF SENSELESS LOSS / Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher
UPC: 0060652845
- Publisher : Harper Collins Publisher (December 1, 1994)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 94 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0060652845
- ISBN-13 : 978-0060652845/9780060652845
- Item Weight : 2.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.8 x 0.3 x 7.3 inches
A TIMELESS AND INSPIRING AFFIRMATION OF FAITH IN THE FACE OF SENSELESS LOSS. TO SURVIVE THE "MAD MIDNIGHT MOMENTS" AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH, C. S. LEWIS WROTE ABOUT HIS AGONY AND NEAR DESPAIR. IN A GRIEF OBSERVED, HIS JOURNAL OF STRUGGLE, WE ARE ALLOWED TO WITNESS LEWIS'S CLASSIC TRIAL OF FAITH AS HE PROBES THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF LIFE AND DEATH, AND SUMMONS THOSE WHO GRIEVE TO HONEST MOURNING AND HOPE IN THE MIDST OF LOSS.
"Lewis gives us permission to
admit our own doubts, our own
angers s and anguishes, and to know
that they are part of the soul's
growth."
-MADELEINE L'ENGLE
"[Lewis] faces his tortured life
with unswerving honesty, and
writes out his conclusions, or lack
of them, with a poetic expression
which is often agony but never
self-pity."
-KIRKUS REVIEWS
"A very personal, anguished,
luminous little book about the
meaning of death, marriage, and
religion."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was known to students at Oxford and Cambridge universities as a brilliant scholar and tutor and to the world as an author of unusual distinction, whose books include the popular series The Chronicles of Narnia.
