C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—takes readers on a spiritual journey through his early life and eventual embrace of the Christian faith. Lewis begins with his childhood in Belfast, surveys his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, reflects on his experience in World War I, and ends at Oxford, where he became „the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” As he recounts his lifelong search for joy, Lewis demonstrates its role in guiding him to find God.
Surprised by Joy 2 csillagozás
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1955
Enciklopédia 1
Kiemelt értékelések
Talán ez a leginkább olyan életrajz, ahol az események, a cselekvés háttérbe szorul és nem jelenik meg egy linerális felépítés A-tól Z-ig a személy életéről vagy, ha igen, rövid, tömör leírásokban. A hangsúly nem ezen van. Helyette olyan elbeszélés ez, ahol az író gondolataiba merül, filozófikusan hosszú és körbefont leírásokba, melyek inkább a személyisége kialakulását, a gondolatai, hiedelmei változását teszi terítékre. Mindemellett persze megtudunk tényeket is Lewis gyerekkoráról, apjához, testvéréhez, iskolatársaihoz, tanárjaihoz való viszonyáról, de nem nagy részletekben. Amit kiemel az az, hogy élete eseményei, a benne megjelenő emberek, könyvek miként formálták gondolkodását, életszemléletét. Már a könyv első oldalán érezhető az egész könyv hangvitele, hangulata, amolyan önszemlélet, elemző visszatekintés az élete korai szakaszára.
Népszerű idézetek
My mother was a Hamilton with many generations of clergymen, lawyers, sailors, and the like behind her; on her mother's side, through the Warrens, the blood went back to a Norman knight whose bones lie at Battle Abbey. The two families from which I spring were as different in temperament as in origin. My father's people were true Welshmen, sentimental, passionate, and rhetorical, easily moved both to anger and to tenderness; men who laughed and cried a great deal and who had not much of the talent for happiness The Hamiltons were a cooler race. Their minds were critical and ironic and they had the talent for happiness in a high degree – went straight for it as experienced travelers go for the best seat in a train.
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My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing-room, books in the cloakroom, books int the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interests, books readable and ureadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not.
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As I stood beside a flowering currant bush on a summer day there suddenly arose in me without warning, and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries, the memory of that earlier morning at the Old House when my brother had brought his toy garden into the nursery. It is difficult to find words strong enough for the sensation which came over me; Milton's 'enormous bliss' of Eden comes somewhere near it. It was sensation, of course, of desire but desire for what? not, certainly, for a biscuit-tin filled with moss, nor even for my own past.
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