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Surprised by Joy
C. S. Lewis Signature Classic (Related to this series)
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- Narrator
- Peter Noble
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 9 February 2017
- Run Time
- 7 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Christian life and practice, Spirituality and religious experience, Autobiography: religious and spiritual, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Philosophy of religion, Theology, Religious life and practice
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What to expect
For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.
“In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” Thus Lewis describes memorably the crisis of his conversion.
‘Surprised by Joy’ reveals both that crisis and its momentous conclusion that would determine the shape of Lewis’s entire life.
Critics Review
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‘He is admirably equipped to write spiritual autobiography for the plain man, for his outstanding gift is clarity. You can take it at two levels, as straight autobiography, or as a kind of spiritual thriller, a detective’s probing of clue and motive that led up to his return to the Christianity he had lost in childhood.’ Isabel Quigley, Sunday Times
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Details
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- Narrator
- Peter Noble
- Duration
- 7 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 February 2017
- ISBN
- 9780008210076
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Christian life and practice, Spirituality and religious experience, Autobiography: religious and spiritual, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Philosophy of religion, Theology, Religious life and practice
Synopsis
For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography. “In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” Thus Lewis describes memorably the crisis of his conversion. ‘Surprised by Joy’ reveals both that crisis and its momentous conclusion that would determine the shape of Lewis’s entire life.
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