CS Lewis Apologetics Quiz

What is Lewis trying to provide?

Explanation

What is the difference between an explanation and an argument?

the starting place

What is Lewis’s tone?

friendly conversationalist (has an attractiveness)

What are the four core themes?

language, reason, human longing, human imagination

What was Lewis’s thoughts on language?

How does Lewis justify his approach (focusing on what is generally held by all Christians and not individual denominations)?

1. He is not an expert theologian

2. There are already enough books focused on denominational issues

3. Disputed points don’t bring non-Christians to Christ

What does Lewis combine?

argument and depiction

What was Lewis’s apologetic method?

Logic, experience, and imagination

What is Apologetics?

a principal attempt to defend and commend the Christian faith

What is deductive reasoning?

drawing conclusions from logic; has true premises and conclusions, and uses sound logic

What is inductive reasoning?

making generalizations drawn from observation, can be false conclusion even if all observations are true

What is the fundamental theme in Mere Christianity?

the Christian faith makes more sense of things than its religious or secular alternatives

To Lewis “Christian faith makes sense of what we ______ and _______.”

observe, experience

Lewis believed reason was the organ of _____ but imagination was the organ of ________

truth, meaning

Why is Lewis’s appeal broad?

He weaves together Modern and Postmodernism, Rational defense and imaginative exploration, Argument and Narrative, Those who privilege rationality and who long for imaginative stimulation