Chesterton and Lewis for Beginners


	Chesterton and Lewis for Beginners

Efrain Alvarado

7-27-2009 12:18 AM

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Efrain Alvarado says:

·Orthodoxy. One of Chesterton's two greatest works, it argues for Christianity through his unfolding discovery that it answered all the questions the world presented him

·St. Thomas Aquinas.

·The Everlasting Man.

·What's Wrong with the World.

·Charles Dickens: A Critical Study.

C. S. Lewis:

·Surprised by Joy. Lewis's autobiography

·God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics. A posthumous collection of 48 articles and essays

·The Problem of Pain or Miracles.

·The Screwtape Letters. Lewis's innovative collection of letters from a senior devil to his incompetent nephew

·The Abolition of Man.

·The Four Loves. Lewis's exposition of the four different kinds of love and the challenges we face in loving others.

·Selected Literary Essays.

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