This means that they may not be actually found in one or more of the places. In this highly personal, thoughtful, intelligent memoir, Lewis guides us toward joy and toward the surprise that awaits anyone who seeks a life beyond the expected. Several names, while given in full here, are in fact hidden in Lewiss book. It is perhaps this aspect of Surprised by Joy that we-believers and nonbelievers-find most compelling and meaningful Lewis was searching for joy, for an elusive and momentary sensation of glorious yearning, but he found it, and spiritual life, through the use of reason. Lewis takes us from his childhood in Belfast through the loss of his mother, to boarding school and a youthful atheism in England, to the trenches of World War I, and then to Oxford, where he studied, read, and, ultimately, reasoned his way back to God. It is, however, certainly one of the most beautiful and insightful accounts of a person coming to faith. God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." "A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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