For six consecutive weeks this summer, we hosted a book seminar with sophomore students from Saint Agnes School.
During the six sessions we read short works from the following authors:
Graham Greene
John Henry Cardinal Newman
G.K. Chesterton
T.S. Eliot
We spent the last three sessions reading C.S. Lewis' "Till We Have Faces" which is his finest novel. I have grown to love this book and it is one of my favorites. It touches upon the most important questions/issues that every human must face: suffering, love, God, faith, reason, loss, and beauty. Ultimately, the book is about conversion and possessing what I'd call beauty of soul. The book is in many ways like Job.
C.S. Lewis spent much of his life writing it and one can see that it is also a very personal work. In it is his own conversion from atheism, his brief relationship with Joy Davidman, his knowledge of history and myth, the tension between faith and reason, and his apologetic against the modern, skeptical mind.
It is a fascinating work. I'd recommend it to anyone: the agnostic, atheist, the Christian, the Jew... I've been thinking too that it's a great book for someone who has lost a loved one in the recent past or a person who is experiencing suffering.
So, go and get a copy like these "wise-idiots" did (that's what sopho-more means)!
Here's a picture of C.S. Lewis... in his bathrobe?
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