Surprised By Joy/ The Four Loves

Surprised by Joy/ The Four Loves

"If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels." The New YorkerC.S. Lewis was an unfailingly honest and acutely perceptive observer of humanity. InSurprised by Joy, he recounts his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from a traditional Christian childhood in Belfast to a youthful atheism and, finally, back to a confident Christianity.The Four Loves, a candid, wise and deeply personal book, is a reflection on the four basic kinds of human loveaffection, friendship, erotic love, charityand all of the pleasures and risks that accompany them.C.S. Lewis (18981963) gained international renown for an impressive array of beloved works of both popular and scholarly literary criticism, childrens literature, fantasy literature, and numerous books on theology.Surprised by Joy and The Four Loves are among his most celebrated achievements, as areOut of the Silent Planet, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Screwtape Letters.From the Back Cover"If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels." The New YorkerC.S. Lewis was an unfailingly honest and acutely perceptive observer of humanity. In Surprised by Joy, he recounts his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from a traditional Christian childhood in Belfast to a youthful atheism and, finally, back to a confident Christianity. The Four Loves, a candid, wise and deeply personal book, is a reflection on the four basic kinds of human loveaffection, friendship, erotic love, charityand all of the pleasures and risks that accompany them.C.S. Lewis (18981963) gained international renown for an impressive array of beloved works of both popular and scholarly literary criticism, childrens literature, fantasy literature, and numerous books on theology. Surprised by Joy and The Four Loves are among his most celebrated achievements, as are Out of the Silent Planet, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Screwtape Letters.About the AuthorC. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, alsocontinues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. A Fellow and tutor at Oxford until 1954, he spent the rest of his career as Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, inlcudingThe Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy.