Pub Date : 2020-03-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190201111.003.0003
M. Peterson
This chapter presents the idea of a “worldview” as a comprehensive explanation of the important phenomena of life and the world—such as mind, morality, and personhood—and it is expanded into a discussion of various major historical worldviews. There are alternative explanations of reality—actually, different worldviews competing in the intellectual marketplace of ideas. Given his early loss of faith, Lewis embarked on a journey, both philosophical and personal, to find the most adequate worldview—beginning with atheistic materialism, moving through various forms of idealism (sometimes lapsing into pantheism and cosmic dualism), and then coming to basic theism (belief in an omnipotent and moral creator), before accepting Christianity. The intellectual part of his journey was marked by key books and close friends who helped Lewis along the way. The personal part of the journey was characterized by Lewis’s deep need to find an explanation for his longing for joy and meaning, which he found in Christian faith.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190201111.003.0012
M. Peterson
The nature and role of prayer in Christian life have long been items of discussion, and (like the problem of pain and suffering) they admit no easy, formulaic answers. This chapter engages Lewis’s extensive writings on prayer in general as well as the different aspects of prayer, such as praise and confession. With characteristic frankness, Lewis also tackles the difficult problem of petitionary prayer—including the perplexity created by two New Testament models of prayer—petitions on the condition that they are God’s will and petitions in faith that they will be granted. Acknowledging that he does not have the faith that assures an answer (and observing that almost no Christians really seem to have that kind of faith either), Lewis says that the Christian must engage in the first type of prayer. Lewis also discusses the role of prayer in a relational universe in which a relational God seeks relationship with us—partly to make the point that prayer is not just petition and partly to make the point that relationship with God in prayer helps transform us. Another topic regarding Lewis and prayer is the nature of divine providence if God is timeless and knows timelessly what needs to occur—why pray?
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