Lewis Agonistes: How C.S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World

by Louis Markos

Overview

The written legacy of C.S. Lewis continues to be a rich mine of Christian thought and perspective. And each work continues to be as relevant today as it was at its original publishing.And now, Lewis scholar Louis Markos has done the community of faith a great service by organizing Lewis’s thoughts on a wide scope of subjects pertaining to modernity and postmodernity—on science and the natural world, the new age movement, philosophy, evil and suffering, the arts, and heaven and hell. Lewis Agonistes will make readers work in the same way that Lewis’s writings made them work, forcing them to rethink and examine ideas—to become participants in the agon (or wrestling match) of the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433675263
Publisher:	B&H Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/01/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	174
File size:	737 KB

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	The Education of Lewis Agonistes	1
	Early Days: The War of Reason and Intuition
	Schooldays: Building a Wall of Reason
	Oxford: Breaking Down the Wall
	Christian Apologist: The Marriage of Reason and Intuition
	The Last Battle: Wrestling with Love and Pain
	Wrestling with Science	29
	Unpacking the Modernist Paradigm
	The Things That Could Not Have Evolved
	It's Your God Who's Too Small
	Wrestling with the New Age	61
	The Return to Paganism
	The Medieval Net Was Wider Than Our Own
	Rehabilitating the Medieval Model
	Wrestling with Evil and Suffering	90
	The Problem of Pain
	God's Free Will Experiment
	Suffering into Wisdom
	Wrestling with the Arts	112
	The Death of Language
	The Aesthetics of Incarnation
	The Sub-Creator at Work
	Wrestling with Heaven and Hell	145
	The Deconstruction of Heaven and Hell
	The Psychology of Sin
	Our Desires Are Too Weak for Heaven
	Conclusion: Seeing Past the Lines	172