 | A. N. Wilson - 2002 - 370 Seiten
...'at last beginning to melt'. Some time in that summer of 1929, in his college rooms at Magdalen, he 'gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt...night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England'.19 The 'conversion' was a recognition that God was God. It was not a conversion to Christianity.... | |
 | John D. Barbour - 1994 - 264 Seiten
...Absolute" (221). Then he realized that one cannot worship an ideal or a Hegelian Absolute. Finally, "in the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted...most dejected and reluctant convert in all England" (228). In the final chapter Lewis presents Christianity, rather too briefly, as the only religion able... | |
 | Jean Howarth, Mike Walton - 1995 - 490 Seiten
...academic was a Christian. He formed many arguments against the existence of God, until one night. He said: 'I gave in and admitted that God was God, and knelt...most dejected and reluctant convert in all England ... The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men and this compulsion is our liberation.'... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - 1997 - 484 Seiten
...unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in,...most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. There might be no certainty that Christ was God — but, by God, there was no certainty that he was... | |
 | Scott R. Burson, Jerry L. Walls - 2009 - 312 Seiten
...ultimate authority figure, the cosmic cop, had cornered him into a decision. In 1929 Lewis finally gave in "and admitted that God was God, and knelt...night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."28 30 CS Lewis £<? Francis Schaeffer The Prodigal Returns Lewis was a convert to theism,... | |
 | David Horan - 1999 - 260 Seiten
...1929 he had a mystical experience on a bus travelling up Headington Hill from Oxford. Later, he said: "I gave in and admitted that God was God, and knelt...most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." It was around this time too, as a young don at the university, that CS Lewis became friends with JRR... | |
 | Terry A. Bowland - 1999 - 324 Seiten
...unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in,...and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed .... The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.1... | |
 | Peter Walker - 2000 - 270 Seiten
...unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in,...night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.2 Here was someone who honestly did not desire to meet with God, but found himself meeting... | |
 | Hubert J. Richards - 2000 - 134 Seiten
...feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 1 gave in, and admitted that God was God, knelt, and prayed; perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. Quoted from W. Raeper, Beginner's Guide to Ideas Anthony Bloom, an atheist doctor in Paris, 1942 (A... | |
 | Kathryn Ann Lindskoog - 2001 - 240 Seiten
...unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in,...most dejected and reluctant convert in all England... At the end of Surprised by Joy and in his biographies one can read how Lewis took about two years to... | |
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Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of... 
