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Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality: C. S. Lewis and Incarnational Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Red beef and strong beer” was how C. S. Lewis described his education under one of his early tutors. It was, in other words, a substantial education that engaged deeply with the intellectual tradition and challenged him to grow. Gary Selby sees Lewis’s expression as an indication of the kind of transformation that is both possible and necessary for the Christian faith, and he contends that...

for its own sake becomes a mark of Christian virtue. Closely related is a second dimension, the impulse to intellectualize faith. Negative spirituality separates the mind (or spirit) from the body and from all that is physical, locating spirituality in the mind. The body, if not inherently evil, is irrelevant or even a hindrance to the spiritual life. Growing out of these two is the third and most obvious characteristic, the rejection of sensory pleasure. Steeped in this view of the world, spiritual
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