5/19/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis books mere christianity![]() Without a supernatural world, especially heaven and hell, there is much about our lives, human experience, and Christianity that just doesn’t fit together.Īs a scholar of medieval times, in which the entire culture lived and breathed the daily consequences of believing in the reality of heaven and hell, Lewis was equipped to see the far-ranging change and destructive consequences of the world moving into the modern era. 2 Central to Lewis’s supernaturalism was an unapologetic belief in heaven and hell. Here or nowhere is the whole fact of the matter!”ġLewis believed that a vigorous supernaturalism was essential to understanding Christianity. A hundred years earlier, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Other world, there is no other world. Lennon was merely lyrically distilling the growing consensus of the modern mind that has been developing in Western culture since the Enlightenment. John Lennon brilliantly expressed this modern mind in his song “Imagine”: “Imagine there’s no heaven… No hell… Imagine all the people, living for today…” Lewis contested throughout his writings, denies the supernatural. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The modern age in which we live, and with which C.S. ![]()
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