God in the Dock

God in the Dock

by C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Eerdmans
Trade Paperback, 389 pages
Price: $18.00

Ranging from popular newspaper pieces to learned defenses of the faith, the 48 essays and 12 letters in this book cover topics as varied as the logic of theism, good and evil, miracles, vivisection, the role of women in church polity, and ethics and politics.

Contents:

Preface by Walter Hooper

PART I

  1. Evil and God
  2. Miracles
  3. Dogma and the Universe
  4. Answers to Questions on Christianity
  5. Myth Became Fact
  6. 'Horrid Red Things'
  7. Religion and Science
  8. The Laws of Nature
  9. The Grand Miracle
  10. Christian Apologetics
  11. Work and Prayer
  12. Man or Rabbit?
  13. On the Transmission of Christianity
  14. 'Miserable Offenders'
  15. The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club
  16. Religion without Dogma?
  17. Some Thoughts
  18. 'The Trouble with "X"...'
  19. What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?
  20. The Pains of Animals
  21. Is Theism Important?
  22. Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger
  23. Must Our Image of God Go?

PART II

  1. Dangers of National Repentance
  2. Two Ways with the Self
  3. Meditation on the Third Commandment
  4. On the Reading of Old Books
  5. Two Lectures
  6. Meditation in a Toolshed
  7. Scraps
  8. The Decline of Religion
  9. Vivisection
  10. Modern Translations of the Bible
  11. Priestesses in the Church?
  12. God in the Dock
  13. Behind the Scenes
  14. Revival or Decay?
  15. Before We Can Communicate
  16. Cross-Examination

PART III

  1. 'Bulverism'
  2. First and Second Things
  3. The Sermon and the Lunch
  4. The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
  5. Xmas and Christmas
  6. What Christmas Means to Me
  7. Delinquents in the Snow
  8. Is Progress Possible?
  9. We Have No 'Right to Happiness'

PART IV

Letters
Index

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