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LEWIS, C S.

Undeceptions: Essays on Theology and Ethics

Undeceptions: Essays on Theology and Ethics

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1971

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LEWIS, C S. Undeceptions: Essays on Theology and Ethics. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1971. First edition, first printing of this collection of 48 essays and articles by the author, all appearing in an anthology for the first time. While C. S. Lewis is best known for the many books he wrote, this volume brings together the lesser-known essays and articles he contributed throughout his career, including many early ones from the 1940s. Essays included:

“Answers to Questions on Christianity” (1944), “Before We Can Communicate” (1961), “Behind the Scenes” (1956), “Bulverism” (1944), “Christian Apologetics” (1945), “Cross-Examination” (1963), “Dangers of National Repentance” (1940), “The Decline of Religion” (1946), “Delinquents in the Snow” (1957), “Dogma and the Universe” (1943), “Evil and God” (1941), “First and Second Things” (1942), “The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club” (1943), “God in the Dock” (1948), “The Grand Miracle” (1945), “Horrid Red Things” (1944), “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment” (1949), “Is Theism Important?” (1952), “The Laws of Nature” (1945), “Man or Rabbit?” (1946), “Meditation in a Toolshed” (1945), “Meditation on the Third Commandment” (1941), “Miracles” (1942), “Miserable Offenders” (1946), “Modern Translations of the Bible” (1947), “Must Our Image of God Go?” (1963), “Myth Became Fact” (1944), “On the Reading of Old Books” (1944), “On the Transmission of Christianity” (1946), “The Pains of Animals” (1950), “Priestesses in the Church?” (1948), “Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger” (1958), “Religion and Science” (1945), “Religion without Dogma?” (1946), “Revival or Decay?” (1958), “Scraps” (1945), “The Sermon and the Lunch” (1945), “Some Thoughts” (1948), “The Trouble with ‘X’” (1948), “Two Lectures” (1945), “Two Ways with the Self” (1940), “Vivisection” (1947), “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” (1963), “What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?” (1950), “What Christmas Means to Me” (1957), “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State” (1958), “Work and Prayer” (1945), and “Xmas and Christmas” (1954).

Publisher's grey binding, red stamp with gilt title to spine, gilt and red titles, plain endpapers; in unclipped (£2.25 net (45/-)) dust-wrapper. A good copy, with binding square and firm, light bumping to spine tips and a couple of corners, foxing to edges and prelims and a large ownership bookplate stuck to front pastedown (with an ink smudge to one side); else a clean and uninscribed book. In a very good+ dust-wrapper with light tanning to spine and around joints, some light marks and slightest creasing to extremities; now in an archival wrapper.

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