C.S. Lewis's influence on John Mark Reynolds was very much like Lewis's influence on me and a great many others. Reynolds:
...I am a Christian in great part because of the role his works had in shaping my imagination. I am the kind of Christian I am, because Lewis wrote and lived as he did. [....]
C.S. Lewis was the first writer who inspired me to read all of his works . . . or at least all his works I could find.
Reynolds blogs about C.S. Lewis: Five Books That Changed My Life and gives the reasons for his choices. Here are his five:
- That Hideous Strength
- The Abolition of Man
- Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Perelandra
- The Last Battle
He challenges each of us to choose five.
As I tried to do that I found it impossible. I admire the five he chose and for much the same reasons he gives. The first book by Lewis that I read was Mere Christianity - it provided a reasonable explanation of Christian orthodoxy at a time when that was very much what I needed. Then, like Reynolds, I read everything I could get my hands on. Choosing only five is too hard.
C.S. Lewis: Five Books that Changed My Life | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow
As I tried to do that I found it impossible. I admire the five he chose and for much the same reasons he gives. The first book by Lewis that I read was Mere Christianity - it provided a reasonable explanation of Christian orthodoxy at a time when that was very much what I needed. Then, like Reynolds, I read everything I could get my hands on. Choosing only five is too hard.
C.S. Lewis: Five Books that Changed My Life | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow
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