Beyond Narnia: The Real Life Of C.S. Lewis | The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2023
- CS Lewis's biographer AN Wilson goes in search of the man behind Narnia - bestselling children's author and famous Christian writer, but an under-appreciated Oxford academic and an aspiring poet who never achieved the same success in writing verse as he did prose.
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CS Lewis my fellow Ulsterman and Christian brother. One of Our True Greats.
He is up there with Robert Blair Mayne amongst my countries absolute Best.
Bless him and everyone that has glimpsed a bit of his genius.
I never could read very well... and have read only a handful of books (less than 10) cover to cover. Oddly, I can write like the wind... and it's kind of you to present this work - these folks are people we should know - as 'real people'.
Really enjoyed watching this, Thank you
This was wonderfully presented. I hadn't intended to watch it in one sitting but was shocked to find that at midnight, it was over.
Thank you for the real story!
I am so very glad I found this channel. I have always had an infinity for the marvelous man. Very well researched and presented!
Research is horrible. Wilson is terrible biographer. He said that Lewis never wrote any apologetics after the debate with Anscombe. He wrote plenty of apologetics and even Anscombe herself said the incident was no big deal. People made way more of it than what happened. Lewis was not destroyed over it. I wouldn’t trust anything Wilson says. He used to brag that he became an atheist from reading “Mere Christianity.” He supposedly came back to the faith but he has made no retraction of his error filled book on Lewis.
@annchovey2089, thank you for setting the record straight. I truly wish I had been able to sit in on CS Lewis's lectures. There is a channel that features his essays, which are fascinating. Anyway, thanks again and I will be more careful about praising Wilson. Have a great day😊
@@debbieellett9093 You're welcome. I would trust anything by Douglas Gresham (Lewis' stepson), Terry Glaspey, or Louis Markos. Don't bother with "Jack" by George Sayer. He claimed CSL lost his faith after Joy died but that is not true. He still continued to write works of a theological nature. The movie "Shadowlands" tries to paint CSL the same way. It was an emotionally accurate movie but not factual. People hostile to the faith are anxious to paint Lewis as someone who lost his faith. Couldn't be further from the truth.
How delightful so very well done and how lovely to hear Robert Hardy one of my favorite actors.
You should invest in the Narnia books and read them. I think Narnia is heaven! I was about 85 or so when I bought the set at a garage sale, but before giving them to my great grandchildren I had to read them to make sure they were something I wanted them to read.I am 82 and this year I bought myself a set. Very easy to read, give them a try! 😘 Grannie Lou
I was 75 or so not 85. Sorry, 😘 Lou
EXCELLENT ! A.N. WILSON. GREAT STORY OF C.S. LEWIS. MANY THANKS FROM, U.K. (2023).
Wilson’s book on Lewis is filled with errors. He used to brag that he became an atheist from reading “Mere Christianity”. He has yet to apologize or set the record straight.
Very inspirational and challenging
PTL for CS Lewis
Thanks from old New Orleans 😇
Please do JK Rowling or L. Frank Baum next, pleaseeeeeeeee!!!
43:15 - what is with the mark on the side of the man's head in this photo?
This is just a reposting and rebranding of a video originally published about four years ago by a group called “absolute history“. Seems like a copyright violation to me.
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CS LEWIS would be appalled by this crap!
What crap??? What happened?
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@@kidnplay3978For one thing, A.N. Wilson’s biography of Lewis contains about 60 errors and Wilson himself used to brag that he became an atheist from reading “Mere Christianity”. He supposedly has returned to the faith but I have yet to see an apology from him.
What on earth do you mean? I have studied CS Lewis, his life and his books, for probably more years than you have been alive. This documentary is beautifully done. In particular, the insight into Jack's relationship with Minty Moore is one we rarely see. Was it a romantic relationship? We will never know. Personally I think it unlikely and that Jack replaced Paddy Moore and his own mother with this rather cantankerous woman, and saw her rather as the responsibility he would have taken on for his own mother once Albert passed. Marriage and children do not appear to be part of the life Jack saw for himself - at any time. He may have been a romantic, but romance was rather outside of his sphere of immediate needs or understandings. Jack Lewis was a man's man. And regardless of what Mr. Wilson says here, he was an intellectual to his fingertips.
Of course his relationship with Joy was important, but at least here it doesn't assume the extreme raison d'être with which other biographers (and films) have allowed. Jack saw Joy as a fellow investigator of life. They were soulmates for sure; whether they were lovers is another matter. Lewis seemed to be quite good at what might be considered rather bizarre relationships.
As a child, growing up as every new Narnia book was published - and oh how I wish I had them now - I learned my morals from those books: I learned about duty, and loyalty, and yes, about penalty and remorse.
It would seem, @mypeeps 1965, that you have not realised any of those things.
This excellent documentary brought back all the love and admiration I have always felt. Thank you enormously, A. N. Wilson for inviting me in.
Amen, amen and amen again
I can't even comprehend going that direction; from atheist to fervent christian. How do you go from 'no god' to picking one and not just believing but proselytizing.
Scratch that, he started as a protestant christian.
It can happen if you are shown by God and the universe
He lost his wife and survived World War 2. You go through that much trauma you have to latch on to something
Yes, his traumatic experiences caused him to retreat into a world of fantasy and also denial.