C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (Index)

Ah yes! Clive Staples Lewis: a donnish, deep-voiced professor of Medieval English; a writer of children's fairy tales with thinly-disguised religious messages; and a stalwart defender and apologist for the Christian faith.

Lewis was famous for his atheist-turned-true-believer shtick. He wrote passionately about the rationality of Christianity, the argument from desire, the argument from reason, the character of Christ and the problem of pain. Many have been persuaded.

Many that is until John Beversluis came along and wrote his excellent book-length takedown of Lewis's apologetics: C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (Revised Edn, Prometheus Press, 2007).

This is a series about Beversluis's book. I begin with an unexciting index.


CHAPTER 1: C.S. LEWIS AS CHRISTIAN APOLOGIST

• The Rationality of Belief

CHAPTER 2: THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIRE

CHAPTER 3: THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY

• Mere Christianity: An Overview

CHAPTER 4: MORALITY AND THE MORAL ARGUMENT

CHAPTER 5: JESUS: WHO WAS HE?

CHAPTER 6: THE ARGUMENT FROM REASON

CHAPTER 7: NONBELIEF

CHAPTER 8: THE PROBLEM OF CONTRARY EVIDENCE

CHAPTER 9: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

CHAPTER 10: C.S. LEWIS'S CRISIS OF FAITH

CHAPTER 11: DID C.S. LEWIS LOSE HIS FAITH?

CHAPTER 12: SPECIMEN