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C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason

C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Victor ReppertPublish date:2003-09-19Pages:132
Language:EnglishPublisher:IVP AcademicISBN-13:9780830827329ISBN-10:830827323UPC:9780830827329Book Category:Religion, ScienceBook Subcategory:Philosophy, Christian Theology, Philosophy & Social AspectsBook Topic:ApologeticsSize:8.48 x 5.30 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.3814Product ID:SCRJM6YJ89

Who ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis.Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. In C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea Reppert offers careful, able development of Lewis's thought and demonstrates that the basic thrust of Lewis's argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, with ad hominem arguments, Reppert also revisits the debate and subsequent interaction between Lewis and the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. And addressing those who might be afflicted with philosophical snobbery, Reppert demonstrates that Lewis's powerful philosophical instincts perhaps ought to place him among those other thinkers who, by contemporary standards, were also amateurs: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume. But even more than this, Reppert's work exemplifies the truth that the greatness of Lewis's mind is best measured, not by his ability to do our thinking for us, but by his capacity to provide sound direction for taking our own thought further up and further in.

Language:EnglishPublisher:IVP AcademicISBN-13:9780830827329ISBN-10:830827323UPC:9780830827329Book Category:Religion, ScienceBook Subcategory:Philosophy, Christian Theology, Philosophy & Social AspectsBook Topic:ApologeticsSize:8.48 x 5.30 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.3814Product ID:SCRJM6YJ89
Reppert (Ph. D., University of Illinois) is adjunct professor of philosophy at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Arizona. He is active in several C. S. Lewis societies, and he has written articles on Lewis's apologetics for such journals as The Christian Scholar's Review, Philosophia Christi and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
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