Into the Region of Awe

Into the Region of Awe
Author: David C. Downing
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2005-04-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830832842

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David C. Downing explores mysticism as a part of C. S. Lewis's faith and writing. He addresses both the influence on Lewis by mystical writers of his own day and the threads of mysticism evident in Lewis's works.

Awe

Awe
Author: Paul David Tripp
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433547104

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Humans are hardwired for awe. Our hearts are always captured by something—that’s how God made us. But sin threatens to distract us from the glory of our Creator. All too often, we stand in awe of everything but God. Uncovering the lies we believe about all the earthly things that promise us peace, life, and contentment, Paul Tripp redirects our gaze to God’s awe-inducing glory—showing how such a vision has the potential to impact our every thought, word, and deed.

Looking for the King

Looking for the King
Author: David C. Downing
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1640603514

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It is 1940, and American Tom McCord, a 23-year-old graduate student, is in England researching the historical evidence for the legendary King Arthur. There he meets perky and intuitive Laura Hartman, a fellow American staying with her aunt in Oxford, and the two of them team up for an even more ambitious and dangerous quest. Aided by the Inklings — that illustrious circle of scholars and writers made famous by its two most prolific members, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien — Tom and Laura begin to suspect that the fabled Spear of Destiny, the lance that pierced the side of Christ on the Cross, is hidden somewhere in England.

The Most Reluctant Convert

The Most Reluctant Convert
Author: David C. Downing
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1666718939

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In his teens, a young man wrote, “I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “I never sank so low as to pray.” To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, “You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!” This young man was C. S. Lewis, the “foul-mouthed atheist” who would become one of the most eloquent Christian writers of the twentieth century. David C. Downing offers a unique look at Lewis’s personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life as a writer and eventual follower of Christ. This is the first book to focus on the period from Lewis’s childhood to his early thirties, a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration. It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life’s meaning so well.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
Author: Eugene H. Peterson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2008-01-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802862977

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Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Peterson firmly grounds spirituality once more in Trinitarian theology and offers a clear, practical statement of what it means to actually live out the Christian life.

Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062565443

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A repackaged edition of the revered author’s spiritual memoir, in which he recounts the story of his divine journey and eventual conversion to Christianity. 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.

Admiration and Awe

Admiration and Awe
Author: Antonio Urquízar Herrera
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0198797451

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This book explores the appropriation of Islamic architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, illuminating its relationship to the development of Spanish national identity.

Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon
Author: Jason Chin
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250155436

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Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past. Weave in and out of time as perfectly placed die cuts show you that a fossil today was a creature much long ago, perhaps in a completely different environment. Complete with a spectacular double gatefold, an intricate map and extensive back matter.

The Great Lakes Water Wars

The Great Lakes Water Wars
Author: Peter Annin
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 159726637X

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The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.

"Into the Region of Awe"

Author: Jong-Tae Lee
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Total Pages: 484
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"Disenchantment" (Entzauberung), literally meaning "eliminating magic (Zabuer)," involves the spiritual crisis of modernity. To put it in a nutshell, disenchantment means that the world is no longer seen as a meaningful cosmos. Instead, moderns live in a mechanistics, meaningless universe. Disenchantment is commonly described as the eclipse of wonder in the modern world. Examining the link between thaumazein ("Platonic wonder"), contemplation (theoria), and seeing, this dissertation argues that wonder is essentially linked to the human experience of or yearning for the transcendent. I propose to understand wonder as a way of seeing, "contemplative seeing," the loss of which lies at the heart of the disenchantment of modernity. C. S. Lewis was deeply concerned with addressing and confronting challenges posed by disenchantment. Lewis strongly opposed the reductionist or subjectivist accounts of human meanings that are consequent upon disenchantment, and sought to recover the sense of the world as a locus of meaning. This dissertation demonstrates that Lewis's vision of re-enchantment is anchored in a Platonist, sacramental ontology, a metaphysics of participation, the demise of which, in modernity, is regarded by many as pivotal to the process of disenchantment. Central to Lewis's sacramental view of reality is his spirituality of wonder. I propose that his conversion can be understood as his coming to recognize the ontological significance of his experiences of wonder ("Joy")--an "original conversion," which radically transformed his approach to reality. Linking "Joy," a central motif of Lewis's life and works, to "desiderium naturale" I argue that his "argument from desire" betrays a metaphysical vision that is profoundly sacramental: the natural is innately oriented to the supernatural. This dissertation demonstrates how The Chronicles of Narnia embodies Lewis's vision of re-enchantment. Narnia, the magical world, is an imaginary "sacramental universe" in which all things are alive with transcendent meanings. I read the Narnian scenes of dancing as betraying Lewis's notion of "fullness" as a participation in an enchanted cosmos ("the great dance") and the divine life (the Trinitarian Dance), and Lucy, as a practitioner of "contemplative seeing," which Lewis believed is need for re-enchantment.