Sunday, June 19, 2011

Clive Staples Lewis' Most Influencial Books

I discovered this list below in a book I was recently thumbing through and thought I'd pass it on. 

In 1962, the magazine Christian Century asked Lewis what were the top 10 books, other than the Bible, that had most influenced his life and thought.  These weren't  necessarily his favorite or what he'd claim to be the most important, but ones he believed had been most instrumental in molding him.  Kinda cool to see what books the Spirit used to shape his life.  Anyway, here they are.


- Phantastes by George MacDonald (fantasy fiction)
- The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton (theology)
- The Aeneid by Virgil (narrative poetry)
- The Temple by George Herbert (poetry)
- The Prelude by William Wordsworth (narrative poetry)
- The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto (philosophical theology)
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
- Life of Sameul Johnson by James Boswell (biography)
- Descent into Hell by Charles Williams (fantasy fiction)
- Theism and Humanism by Arthur Balfour (philosophical theology)

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