Celebrating 50 years - C S Lewis by Alister McGrath

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  Pterist

  This lecture by Dr Alister McGrath was sponsored by The Lanier Theological Library in Houston, TX and presented at Champion Forest Baptist Church in Houston, TX, Saturday, March 23, 2012 titled: "C.S. Lewis and the Post Modern Generation: His Message 50 Years Later"
  Dr. Alister McGrath is a Professor of Theology, Ministry and Education at King's College London, and Head of its Centre for Theology, Religion, and Culture. He is also
  Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. Until 2008, he was Professor of Historical
  Theology at Oxford University.
  Dr. McGrath was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1953. He attended Methodist College, Belfast, in 1966 studying pure and applied mathematics, physics and chemistry. McGrath continued his education and eventually earned both a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and a Doctorate of Divinity from Oxford University. The interactions between these two areas of study—Christian theology and the natural sciences—have been a major theme of his research work.
  As a former atheist, McGrath is respectful, yet critical of scientific atheism. He has frequently engaged in debate and dialogue with leading atheists, including Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins. McGrath has explored Charles Darwin's role in atheist apologetics and other controversial concepts of atheism, such as the "meme" in recent atheist accounts of the origins of belief in God.
  McGrath is working on many projects, including his research on the late C. S. Lewis and a major intellectual history of the Swiss Protestant theologian Emil Brunner. His new book to be published in March is entitled C. S. Lewis -- A Life. Reluctant Prophet, Eccentric Genius. This biography will be supplemented by a collection of eight major academic essays on Lewis, to be published in May 2013. Other forthcoming books are the first in a five-volume series entitled "Christian Belief for Everyone" and a new textbook on Christian History.
  For more infomation on the Lanier Theological Library: http://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/

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  Band on the Run

  C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity and, particularly, the Screwtape Letters helped free me from the WT mindset. He is very readable. Lewis wrote a series of so-called children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia, and a sci-fi series, can't recall name, that are so much fun to read. They are light, comfy pieces that have profound theological insights. A Grief Observed is very good for someone in emotional pain from loss. The Problem of Suffering is maddening. When he faced true loss, he wrote A Grief Observed.

  I had no clue who C.S. Lewis was. My first exposure was when I heard the name and did not recognize it. I asked someone else in a church group. She screamed, "You don't know who C.S. Lewis is?" Within certain circles, he is a very big deal. In fact, I read tons of mainstream Christian books to wash the Witnesses out of my hair. Lewis remains the best, IMO.

  His work is so accessible that the British government hired him to give talks to the English people when the Allieds were losing WWII.