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The Romantic Rationalist
The Romantic Rationalist: God, Life, and Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis | John Piper, David Mathis
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“We are far too easily pleased.” C. S. Lewis stands as one of the most influential Christians of the twentieth century. His commitment to the life of the mind and the life of the heart is evident in classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity—books that illustrate the unbreakable connection between rigorous thought and deep affection. With contributions from Randy Alcorn, John Piper, Philip Ryken, Kevin Vanhoozer, David Mathis, and Douglas Wilson, this volume explores the man, his work, and his legacy—reveling in the truth at the heart of Lewis’s spiritual genius: God alone is the answer to our deepest longings and the source of our unending joy.
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A fascinating collection of essays by modern-day theologians on C. S. Lewis. I especially loved the interview in the appendix with them all.

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"Part of what makes Lewis so illuminating ... is his unremitting rational clarity and his pervasive use of likening. Metaphor, analogy, illustration, simile, poetry, story, myth--all of these are ways of likening aspects of reality to what it is not for the sake of showing more deeply what it is."

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"So Lewis saw in his own experience of romanticism the universally human experience. We are all romantics. All of us experience from time to time --some more than others, and some more intensely than others--a longing this world cannot satisfy, a sense that there must be more." (Pic: The Kilns)