“. . . a brilliant book, abounding in lucid exposition and illuminating metaphor.”—Observer “The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.” This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C.S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in His creation. Using his characteristic lucidity and wit to develop his argument, Lewis challenges the rationalists, agnostics and deists on their own grounds and makes an impressive case for the irrationality of their assumptions by positing: “Those who assume that miracles cannot happen are merely wasting their time by looking into the texts: we know in advance what results they will find for they have begun by begging the question.”

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Known as Jack from childhood, he developed an imaginative gift for storytelling at an early age. He was educated at Cherbourg House and Malvern College in England. He completed his schooling under the private tuition of his father’s retired headmaster living in Great Bookham, Surrey. From there he went on to Oxford. From 1955-1963 he was professor of medieval and renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His conversion from atheism to Christian belief in 1931 resulted in a flow of outstanding theological books that championed Christian faith and made him famous in his own lifetime, but it was his fantasy books for children, The Chronicles of Narnia, that he became best known for.