Miracles - C. S. Lewis

Miracles

By C. S. Lewis

  • Release Date: 2024-01-22
  • Genre: Christianity
Score: 4
4
From 8 Ratings

Description

Do miracles really happen? Can we know if the supernatural world exists? "The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this." In Miracles, C. S. Lewis takes this key idea and shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in creation. Using his characteristic warmth, lucidity, and wit, Lewis challenges the rationalists and cynics who are mired in their lack of imagination and provides a poetic and joyous affirmation that miracles really do occur in everyday lives.

Reviews

  • Enlightening and Edifying

    4
    By Dobv_123
    So many things I had never thought of were fully articulated in this essay, and I leave it with a stronger reason for believing what I believe. Some people think that there are two schools on intellectual thought: science and religion, and that the biggest problems facing science can theoretically be solved (the origin of life, the fine tuning of the universe, and other questions on the fringes of our knowledge), and that the biggest problem facing religion (the problem of evil) categorically cannot be solved. I think the latter part is true in that there is no sure graspable conclusion of that problem in this life unless Jesus comes back and raises all of creation back to life. Anyway, this book introduced such a problem to science: rational thought, that if there is a purely naturalistic explanation for every action, our inferences also came about arbitrarily, including the inference that our inferences aren't arbitrary, thus undermining all rational thought. And this book follows the argument for supernature starting at the soundness of rational thought, which is a place most of us assume to be true. Anyway, philosophical waxing done with, that was a really cool read!