Death and Immortality and Christ (Chapters 13 & 14)

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Death and Immortality and Christ

(Chapters 13 & 14)

Walter Hooper (a noted authority on C.S. Lewis) has said that Lewis’s central theme was that all men and women are immortals. Lewis maintained that “There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal.” This was not just theory for him, but something he lived out. The biblical view is strikingly different from other religious or nonreligious views. The great sign that proves the biblical view of immortality is the resurrection of Jesus. Lewis portrays this not only in his apologetic writing but in his fiction. In the Narnian Chronicles, Aslan dies for Edmund but is raised from the dead. Aslan is always close but not often seen. He is the one who transforms. As Christ is to our world, so is Aslan to Narnia. Christ is either a liar, lunatic, legend, or Lord. Lewis’ famous argument still persuades.

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Arthur W. Lindsley

Senior Fellow for Apologetics, CSLI Arthur W. Lindsley is the Vice President of Theological Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Works, & Economics. He has served at the C.S. Lewis Institute since 1987 both as President until 1998 and currently as Senior Fellows for Apologetics. Formerly, he was director of Educational Ministries at the Ligonier Valley Study Center, and Staff Specialist with the Coalition for Christian Outreach. He is the author of C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ, True Truth, Love: The Ultimate Apologetic, and co-author with R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner of Classical Apologetics, and has written numerous articles on theology, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, and the lives and works of many other authors and teachers. Art earned his M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.  

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