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. There are traps everywhere… 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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