The Razor-Blade Between Nature and Spirit - and the Illuminating Metaphors of CS Lewis - by SC Skillman
Though many of us hold within ourselves a conviction of the truth of the Christian story, do we never find that the arguments of the world sometimes intrude, or that what may be called 'belief-feelings' intervene? Reading this volume, one of CS Lewis's most celebrated books of Christian apologetics, is like sitting in a comfortable room with the great writer in Oxford, both of us in armchairs, possibly with sherries at our elbows and maybe the glow of a friendly fire in the grate, as I ask him burning questions, as he patiently and rationally answers every objection, resolves every doubt with his characteristic humour and his mastery of analogy and metaphor. I imagine many people feel like this when reading CS Lewis's books. As we follow him through the pages of Miracles , one of his great books of Christian apologetics, he seems to anticipate the very next question that may spring to our minds. This no doubt results from the amount of time he must have spent wit...