Learning Spiritual Formation with Lewis

Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander Member Posts: 746
edited November 21 in English Forum

I recently watched this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uruDLHQPnt8 I want to find some good resources on Lewis and his views of spiritual formation. 

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  • Mike Binks
    Mike Binks MVP Posts: 7,433

    Where have you looked and what did you reject as being unsuitable for your purpose?

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  • Hamilton Ramos
    Hamilton Ramos Member Posts: 1,033

    Very interesting point of view:

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    "The reason for this is simple: whereas Satan wants food he can absorb into himself, God wants sons and daughters, lovers whose “wills freely conform to His.” For this to happen, Lewis realized, we must have awareness and choice, and we grow more and more into an authentic relationship with God, more and more spiritual—and more and more human—when we obey God from a condition in which we are increasingly aware that we are choosing and so obey more and more from our own free will. It is in the knowledge of this reality that Screwtape issued his most dire warning:

    Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

    This was Lewis’s alternative to the negative spirituality that viewed spirituality as a state of mind, centered in abstract theological ideas and cut off from our embodied nature. In its place was an understanding of spiritual formation centered in an expanding self-awareness and a consciousness of others, of the world, and of God, and a greater and greater level of agency, in which we choose the will of God in a way that is truly free. As chapter five will show, this view of spirituality lies at the heart of true discipleship. More importantly, as we will emphasize in the chapters that follow, this view of spirituality embraces and sanctifies the physical and opens us up to the life-changing possibility of living in community with what Lewis came to call the “fantastic variety of the saints.”"

     Selby, G. S. (2019). Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality: C. S. Lewis and Incarnational Faith (pp. 94–95). Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press.

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