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The Oxbridge evangelist : motivations, practices, and legacy of C.S. Lewis /

In The Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, and Legacy of C.S. Lewis, Michael Gehring examines the evangelistic practices of one of the most significant lay evangelists of the twentieth century. In the early 1930s not many who knew Lewis would have guessed that he would become such a signifi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gehring, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, ©2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 C.S. Lewis: An Unusual Evangelist
  • 1.1. Introduction: Lewis's Evangelistic Legacy
  • 1.2. Odd Choice Explored
  • 1.3. Nature of Lewis's Evangelism
  • 1.3.1. Evangelism and the Character of the Evangelist
  • 1.3.2. Structure of the Work
  • ch. 2 Lewis's Formative Years: Family, Religion, and Cultural, Socioeconomic, and Political Identities
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Family Background
  • 2.3. Religious Formation and Identity
  • 2.4. Cultural, Socioeconomic, and Political Identities
  • 2.4.1. School Choice
  • 2.5. Conclusion
  • ch. 3 From Faith to Unbelief
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Counting the Losses
  • 3.3. Enduring the Pain
  • 3.4. Losing the Faith
  • 3.5. Reinforcing the Loss
  • 3.6. Joy's Elusive Presence
  • 3.7. Living into His Atheism
  • 3.8. Conclusion
  • ch. 4 Journey from the Loss of Faith to Finding the Faith
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Estrangement, Love, and War: Albert, Mrs. Moore, and the Trenches of France
  • 4.3. Changes Which Had Been Wrought
  • 4.4. Return of the Scholar
  • 4.5. Flight from Romanticism
  • 4.6. Surrender
  • 4.7. Conclusion
  • ch. 5 Lewis's Evangelism: Motivations and Practices
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Bearing Witness: The Pilgrim's Regress
  • 5.2.1. Puritania: A Religion of Masks and Rules
  • 5.2.2. Signposts of Another World
  • 5.2.3. Seeking Substitutes
  • 5.2.4. Characters Met on the Road
  • 5.2.5. Regress
  • 5.3. Reactions to The Pilgrim's Regress
  • 5.4. Opened Doors which Led to Unforeseen Heights
  • 5.5. Lewis's Motivations to Engage in Evangelism
  • 5.6. Closing Doors
  • ch. 6 Message, the Messengers, and Character
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Lewis's Concerns about the Messengers
  • 6.3a. Lewis's Response to Straying Messengers
  • 6.3b. Bishop Robinson and an Iconoclastic Age
  • 6.4. Attacking the Character of the Messenger: A Two-Edged Sword
  • ch. 7 Conclusion
  • 7.1. Incredible Legacy.