![]() ![]() He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, including The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity, and Surprised by Joy. ![]() (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. We must seek to be awakened and so to find an Appreciative love through which "all things are possible." " The Four Loves deserves to become a minor classic as a modern mirror of our souls, a mirror of the virtues and failings of human loving." - New York Times Book Review "Lewis has a keen eye, a large measure of human sympathy, wit, and a command of simple words." - Times Literary Supplement C. Love is a need and a gift love brings joy and laughter. ![]() Proper love is a risk, but to bar oneself from it-to deny love-is a damning choice. Lewis examines human love in four forms: affection, the most basic, general, and emotive friendship, the most rare, least jealous, and, in being freely chosen, perhaps the most profound Eros, passionate love that can run counter to happinessand poses real danger charity, the greatest, most spiritual, and least selfish. But how do we understand its work in our lives, its perils and rewards? Here, the incomparable C. ![]() We hear that human love is a reflection of divine love. "We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves." We hear often that love is patient and kind, not envious or prideful. ![]()
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