C.S. Lewis--The Work of Christ Revealed
Author | : P. H. Brazier |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-08-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781610977197 |
ISBN-13 | : 161097719X |
Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Download or read book C.S. Lewis--The Work of Christ Revealed written by P. H. Brazier and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. S. Lewis--The Work of Christ Revealed focuses on three doctrines or aspects of Lewis's theology and philosophy: his doctrine of Scripture, his famous mad, bad, or God argument, and his doctrine of christological prefigurement. In each area we see Lewis innovating within the tradition. He accorded a high revelatory status to Scripture, but acknowledged its inconsistencies and shrank away from a theology of inerrancy. He took a two-thousand-year-old theological tradition of aut Deus aut malus homo (either God or a bad man) and developed it in his own way. Most innovative of all was his doctrine of christological prefigurement--intimations of the Christ-event in pagan mythology and ritual. This book forms the second in a series of three studies on the theology of C. S Lewis titled C. S. Lewis, Revelation, and the Christ (www.cslewisandthechrist.net). The books are written for academics and students, but also, crucially, for those people, ordinary Christians, without a theology degree who enjoy and gain sustenance from reading Lewis's work.