A repackaged edition of the revered authors spiritual. 'The tension of these final chapters holds the interest like the close of a thriller. Originally published in the United Kingdom in 1955 by Geoffrey Bles. He speaks to us with all the power and life-changing force of a Plato, a Dante, and a Bunyan.'- Christianity Today 'Lewis tempered his logic with a love for beauty, wonder, and magic. In this autobiography of his childhood, Lewis recounts the process of his own.

In this highly personal, thoughtful, intelligent memoir, Lewis guides us toward joy and toward the surprise that awaits anyone who seeks a life beyond the expected. perhaps that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. It is perhaps this aspect of Surprised by Joy that we-believers and nonbelievers-find most compelling and meaningful Lewis was searching for joy, for an elusive and momentary sensation of glorious yearning, but he found it, and spiritual life, through the use of reason. Lewis takes us from his childhood in Belfast through the loss of his mother, to boarding school and a youthful atheism in England, to the trenches of World War I, and then to Oxford, where he studied, read, and, ultimately, reasoned his way back to God. It is, however, certainly one of the most beautiful and insightful accounts of a person coming to faith. Lewiss spiritual autobiography, tracing the steps that led up to his conversion to Christianity. William Pynchon (Octo October 29, 1662) was an English colonist and fur trader in North America best known as the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts. God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.' 'A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

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