Present Concerns - Hardcover

Lewis, C. S.; Hooper, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 015173948X ISBN 13: 9780151739486

Publisher: Harcourt, 1987

Synopsis

Previously uncollected essays discuss Lewis' views on ethical issues arising from World War II, threats to education and religious life, living in an atomic age, and sex in literature

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From the Back Cover:

Where God gives the gift, the foolishness of preaching is still mighty. But best of all is a team of two: one to deliver the preliminary intellectual barrage, and the other to follow up with a direct attack on the heart.
An inveterate scholar, throughout his lifetime C.S. Lewis wrote on any number of topics. While his most famous essays concern his thoughts on Christianity, he was also interested in literature, masculinity, domestic life, and war. In the nineteen essays collected in Present Concerns, he touches on all of these and more. Though wide-ranging, these essays all share one thing: C.S. Lewis s characteristic pragmatism and persuasiveness. Many of the essays included were written between 1940 and 1945, and so pertinently reflect on the issues raised by World War II: democratic values, the need for a new chivalry, and the cynicism of the modern soldier, all of which remain relevant today.
"Lewis gives us permission to admit our own doubts, our own angers and anguishes, and to know that they are part of the soul's growth." Madeleine L'Engle
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About the Author:

C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, alsocontinues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. A Fellow and tutor at Oxford until 1954, he spent the rest of his career as Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, inlcudingThe Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 015173948X
• ISBN 13: 9780151739486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 108