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Book: If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
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  1. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and "chime in" with our deepest intuitions about truth, beauty, and goodness. If
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  2. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    The stories of Narnia seem childish nonsense to some. But to others, they are utterly transformative. For the latter group, these evocative stories affirm that it is possible for the weak and foolish to have a noble calling in a dark world; that our deepest intuitions point us to the true meaning of things; that there is indeed something beautiful and wonderful at the heart of the universe; and that this may be found, embraced, and adored.
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  3. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    Lewis's appeal is to our imaginations.
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  4. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."{14}
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  5. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    Lewis discovered that God was the one who both disclosed and safeguarded meaning and morality.
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  6. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    Life is about more than just understanding things: it is about being able to cope with ambiguity and bewilderment, and about finding something worthwhile to give us direction and meaning.
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  7. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    Human desire, the deep and bittersweet longing for something that will satisfy us, points beyond finite objects and finite persons {who seem able to fulfill this desire yet eventually prove incapable of doing so}. Our sense of desire points through these objects, and points persons towards their real goal and fulfillment in God.
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  8. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    And he had to face up to the awkward fact that, if there was no God, blame for the war's horrors had to be laid firmly on human beings.
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  9. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    Chronological Snobbery: Why the Latest Isn't Always the Best In our second lunch, we noted a quote from Francis Bacon: "Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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  10. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    After all, as Lewis himself pointed out, there are few greater pleasures than sharing food, drink, and companionship.
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  11. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    We are, Lewis suggested, like a seed waiting in the good earth: waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener's good time, up into the real world, the real waking. I suppose that our whole present life, looked back on from there, will seem only a drowsy half-waking. We are here in the land of dreams. But cock-crow is coming.{131}
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  12. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C. S.

    To demonstrate the reasonableness of faith does not mean proving every article of Christian belief. Rather, it means showing that there are good grounds that these beliefs are trustworthy and reliable.
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