CS Lewis: The Most Reluctant Convert

I have been a C.S. Lewis fan for all of my adult life. I even took my family to Oxford on a self-guided walking tour of Lewis, Tolkien, and Inklings sites for a spring break vacation once. I enjoyed Narnia as a child, but his Space Trilogy is my favorite (especially Perelandra). Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, and Till We Have Faces are also high on my list. Through the vehicle of mythopoeia, he made the unseen spiritual reality accessible to me like no other author had before. Lewis baptized my imagination like George MacDonald had baptized his so many years before. This presentation of Lewis' life, filmed on location in Oxford, is superb. It is the film I always hoped and wished would be made. And now it is here! I saw it in the theaters and loved it. I was entranced. It was like I had finally met Jack. Max McLean brings him to life even more fully than he has on stage. I bought this digital copy on Google Play as soon as it became available. The timing was apropos, as I am preparing a presentation on Lewis' life for a seminary class I'm taking. I'll be enjoying this film again today as research for that project. If you are even remotely interested in knowing more about Lewis, or curious about arguments for the existence of God and Christian belief for the common man, please watch this film. It will be well worth your time and money. Lewis said, "All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." What he shared with the world is timeless. I look forward to meeting him in person in eternity.

Here's the thing ... its CS Lewis, his mind and his journey. It is not meant to be excitingly or digitally mastered into any blockbuster film. But what you do get is a spiritual journey documented like no other from one of the best minds in the 20th century. I have read almost all his books and still I had to pause and rewind many of the statements in this movie because they hit me as so profound I had to memorize them ... great movie, great job presenting it.

If u r looking for a in depth discourse on philosophy & theology u will have 2 read his books, ect. That aside..it was a truly fascinating story that most any1 could see themselves within..how we go thru the process of growth along the way. From one phase to another, 2 another.. until total surrender. Overcoming our reasons for our own trust issues..I urge all to see themselves in their own lives in his, also shows how the intellect can only go so far. The heart had to take over. 👍