Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy
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Surprised by Joy [UNABRIDGED]

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An unfailingly honest and acutely perceptive observer of self, C. S. Lewis vividly recounts the spiritual journey that led him from a conventionally Christian childhood in Belfast to a youthful atheism and, finally, back to an assured Christianity. Lewis describes his early schooldays, his experiences in the trenches during World War I, and undergraduate life at Oxford - where he found himself drawn back to God. Yet it is perhaps the rational aspect of his conversion that makes Lewis's story so compelling, especially to contemporary readers. He is, most persuasively, a modern man who has thought his way to God. Initially published in 1955, Lewis's journey - his "surprise" - continues to be of first importance to admirers of his work and today, more than ever, to anyone concerned with the compatibility of the rational and the spiritual.

Description of C. S. Lewis, author of Surprised by Joy:

In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search fror joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity. Since St. Augustine's meticulous analysis of what was the light, what the color, what the sound, the smell, the touch, what indeed was the good he loved when he loved God, few writers have taken the trouble to distinguish with such clarity of psychological insight, the nature and the degree of attraction, the nature and the degree of satisfaction apprehended by man. Unabridged. Read by Geoffrey Howard. 6 CDs. Over 6 hours.