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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...

to bring his faith and his experiences of longing and beauty together, ending once and for all the war between them. He now saw those moments of ecstatic bliss as signposts pointing to God. And of course the signposts stood most often within the realm of physical sensation. The place where, for humans, the touch of that divine finger was most present was in the physical world, apprehended through sensory experience—the realm, Lewis pointed out, that God created and uniquely blessed in the incarnation.
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