Read every CS Lewis book.

This was a great experience. Three of the people in the class took it very seriously. I learned a lot from them.

This book was writtent to be studied. It is a philosophical that opens up only after you read it several times. I outlined much of it paragraph by paragraph. I aksed myself what is Lewis talking about?, and what point is he trying to make?

I believe it to be a “Great BooK” -that is a book one can read over and over again, and get new fresh insight every time you read it.

Someday I am going to come back to this book and produce a detailed, formal outline of it.

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Listening to Peter Kreeft, www.peterkreeft.com commentaty on Till We have Faces (TWHF), rereading “Jac”, the bio of Lewis, and reading Augstine’s “confeesions” helped me to understand this book.

The book works on many levels. The story itself is very engaging. The spirtual lessons are simple, yet profound. There are lots of great lines in the book.

For me this book is a classic. I have read it 4-6 times, and planto read it again.

I’ve been studying C,S, Lewis for a long time now, along with many other theologians and philosophers, and he has proved to be extremely intelligent and extremely well spoken. I would consider the book that he wrote in accordance to “The Great Marriage”, “The Great Divorce”, to be my most favorite work he has written. Other than that, in “Mere Christianity” he presented a wonderful case that would stump many opposing people. He is truly a blessing to society and weather or not one believes the same way he is still an amazing read.

-Dan Smith

I just recently started Mere Christianity… i was in the library the other day and found a biography of C.S. Lewis… it looked pretty interesting… but I’m always reading something or other… I didn’t even check it out because I knew I wouldn’t have the time… one day.

I want to graduate from seminary

Fiction

• The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933)
• Space Trilogy
  o Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
  o Perelandra (1943)
  o That Hideous Strength (1946)
• The Screwtape Letters (1942)
• The Great Divorce (1945)
• The Chronicles of Narnia
  o The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
  o Prince Caspian (1951)
  o The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
  o The Silver Chair (1953)
  o The Horse and His Boy (1954)
  o The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
  o The Last Battle (1956)
• Till We Have Faces (1956)
• Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1961) (an addition to The Screwtape Letters)
• Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
• The Dark Tower and other stories (1977)
• Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1985)

Nonfiction

• The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936)
• Rehabilitations and other essays (1939) — with two essays not included in Essay Collection (2000)
• The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (with E. M. W. Tillyard, 1939)
• The Problem of Pain (1940)
• A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
• The Abolition of Man (1943)
• Beyond Personality (1944)
• Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947, revised 1960)
• Arthurian Torso (1948; on Charles Williams’s poetry)
• Mere Christianity (1952; based on radio talks of 1941-1944)
• English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (1954)
• Major British Writers, Vol I (1954), Contribution on Edmund Spenser
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; autobiography)
• Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
• The Four Loves (1960)
• Studies in Words (1960)
• An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
• A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym «N. W. Clerk»)
• Selections from Layamon’s Brut (ed. G L Brook, 1963 Oxford University Press) introduction
• Prayer: Letters to Malcolm (1964)
• The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966) — not included in Essay Collection (2000)
• Spenser’s Images of Life (ed. Alastair Fowler, 1967)
• Letters to an American Lady (1967)
• Christian Reflections (1967; essays and papers)
• Selected Literary Essays (1969) — not included in Essay Collection (2000)
• God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1970), = Undeceptions (1971) — all included in Essay Collection (2000)
• Of Other Worlds (1982; essays) — with one essay not included in Essay Collection
• Present Concerns (1986; essays)
• All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922-27 (1993)
• Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000)
• Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000)
• Collected Letters, Vol. I: Family Letters 1905-1931 (2000)
• Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931-1949 (2004)
• Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950-1963 (2006)

Poetry

• Spirits in Bondage (1919; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton)
• Dymer (1926; published under pseudonym Clive Hamilton)
• Narrative Poems (ed. Walter Hooper, 1969; includes Dymer)
• The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1994; includes Spirits in Bondage)

The CS Lewis seminar I took this semester changed my life.