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by C. S. Lewis (Author), Robert Whitfield (Narrator)
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"I read Lewis for comfort and pleasure many years ago, and a glance into the books revives my old admiration." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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An impeccable inquiry into the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. C. S. Lewis uses his remarkable logic to build a solid argument for the existence of divine intervention. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Solid, Intellectual Work, May 28 2007
By Mark Nenadov "arm-chair reader" (Lasalle, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miracles (Paperback)
C.S. Lewis presents a great deal of solid philisophical material here. One suprise for me was that at a couple points, Lewis seems to come across as more presuppositional than evidential in his approach to apologetics. That is not to say that he is necessarily like that in all regards, but I did find some strong hints of it in this book.

I'm clearly not as big of a Lewis buff as some other people I've met. In fact, I have some serious reservations about some of what he believes. However, this particular book is the real deal and I highly recommend it to those who feel they are not getting sufficient answers elsewhere.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliantly argued work, Dec 13 2003
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This review is from: Miracles (Paperback)
Miracles, while not a perfect book, is certainly an excellent one, in which C.S. Lewis is at his philosophical best. It's not an easy read, by any means, but grinding through it is worth the effort. Recently, another review (by Widger) has widely misconstrued Lewis' argument in the first few chapters, so I would like to use this space, to help "hinder the hindrances" to a very good book.

Widger makes three inadequate criticisms against Lewis' argument. The second and third basically amount to the same critique, so I'll group them together.

1.)Widger says, "First, although he is right that a logical ground for a belief is not the same kind of cause as 'non-rational causation' and although he is also right that a belief being physically caused would not mean that it was proved, it does not follow that having a physical cause would ipso facto prove falsehood."
2.)Widger claims Lewis is arguing to the supernatural through ignorance, and then elucidates some problems with arguing from ignorance.

1.) Lewis never says that having a physical cause proves falsehood ipso facto. He makes this clear by talking about human thought as the border of two frontiers. He says it can be physically accounted for in the brain, but that the brain itself can never give a fully adequate account of reasoning. Just because the water in a fishbowl always moves when the fish moves, doesn't mean the fish is the water. Or that all the movements of the water can be fully explained by the water itself.

2.) Lewis is not arguing from ignorance; he's arguing from reason. He's saying you could never give a complete account of reason through irrational causation. Saying you could would be like saying you could have a round triangle. Now a person can always say, "Well, since you haven't seen every shape in the world, you can't really say there is no such a thing as a round triangle," but it's only another testament to reason that we can declare that statement to be foolishness (And if a person can't see that, it's no use arguing with them). Lewis' whole point is that the very thing we mean by reason, cannot arise from what we mean by irrationality. Saying he is only arguing from ignorance is merely ignoring his argument. If you want to see this argument developed further, read the book, not a review of it. It's quite a fascinating bit of thinking.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, Nov 7 2003
By Julie A Scott (Huntington Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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A wonderful explanation of the supernatural... perhaps best read after Mere Christianity... also, the C.S. Lewis encyclopedia is good as well, especially for the explanation of myth vs. falsehood... Lewis' views on this are very different from the average persons'.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you like C.S. Lewis . . .
. . . like I do, I strongly suggest We All Fall Down, by Brian Caldwell. Like Lewis, Caldwell takes an intellectual aproach to the concept of Christianity. Read more
Published on July 9 2004 by Mike

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent plethora of thought
I loved the intellectual craft of this book. It was metally and spiritually refreshing to read, though it took me a while. I strongly recommend it to anyone who loves reason.
Published on Oct 11 2003 by Bonnie Kirk

3.0 out of 5 stars How it's important to believe that the supernatural is real.
Huh? That is the thought that clouded my reading of Lewis's Miracles more often than not. I readily admit that I am not the most steady reader of philosophy, so most of this... Read more
Published on Aug 12 2003 by Chadwick H. Saxelid

5.0 out of 5 stars Last few chapters are a must read!
I'd have given the book three or four stars because I get so bored with the type of dialectical apologetics against Modernism that the first two thirds are full of (Even though... Read more
Published on May 16 2003 by Andrew Madsen

4.0 out of 5 stars A Preliminary Study on Christian Miracles
According to C. S. Lewis, this book is intended as a preliminary to historical inquiry. It does not, therefore, examine the historical evidence for Christian miracles, but is... Read more
Published on Feb 19 2003 by Cameron B. Clark

5.0 out of 5 stars A great discussion of miracles
In this work, the master of Christian apology tackles a difficult subject: miracles. The question is easy enough--do miracles really occur? Read more
Published on Feb 17 2003 by bixodoido

4.0 out of 5 stars The Essence of Miracles
In this book, C.S. Lewis looks at the essence of what miracles are and how they relate to Christianity. Read more
Published on Jan 17 2003 by John Vickery

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific book; and rebuttal to Jonathan Widger's critique
I recently read this for the first time in years. It's funny how easy it is to forget so much about a book read once. Read more
Published on Jan 13 2003 by Micah Newman

4.0 out of 5 stars Argumentum ad Ignorantiam and reply to Micah Newman
The late professor of Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge University, C. S. Lewis wrote his Christian apologetics in a popular style. Read more
Published on Dec 4 2002 by Jonathan L. Widger

5.0 out of 5 stars Best general Christian apologetic of the 20th century.
When evaluating MaPS, it is most important to keep in mind that Lewis was designing a connected argument, not a salad-bar argument. Read more
Published on Nov 19 2002 by Jason Pratt

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