Turns out the novel I'm reading is Christian fiction

seamus

Peregrinus wrote: »

I think it's going to depend on what you define as "Christian fiction", isn't it? I'd argue that the Narnia books are intentionally evangelistic - whether they're ham-fisted or not depends on the personal taste of the reader, maybe.

Or, indeed The Da Vinci Code.

As much as the RCC had a conniption about it, in order to immerse oneself in the book requires a lot of assumptions about the existence of various peoples and organisations. So it could very much be described as "Christian fiction".

Michael OBrien

robindch wrote: »

I sit corrected - though there's a fair amount of catholicism evident in his writings, and I suspect Tolkien might have helped that along.

Anyhow, here's Lewis making a very shaky case indeed for christianity:

Wow, that is truly flawed thinking (pun intended) by Lewis.
It is packed with errors and a total failure to think through the issues, including from the perspective that if there is no god, and his view that that means his thinking is flawed, then his thinking there IS a god, would also be as flawed as thinking there was none.
Basically he really wanted there to be one, so he could justify his own belief in retrospect. Circular reasoning at its finest.

robindch

Michael OBrien wrote: »

Circular reasoning at its finest.

The orbit of that piece of circular reasoning is so compact that it's a wonder Lewis didn't disappear up his own bum after producing it.

Zillah

robindch wrote: »

I sit corrected - though there's a fair amount of catholicism evident in his writings, and I suspect Tolkien might have helped that along.

Anyhow, here's Lewis making a very shaky case indeed for christianity:

Gosh that's embarrassing.

BlaasForRafa

Zillah wrote: »

Gosh that's embarrassing.

He probably thought of that argument right after he created furry jesus.