7 copies

One of his more popular works, but not very read of his most popular works. Very insightful book that spends so much time leading up to the disucssion of miracles that by the time you get there you feel the argument has already been won.

Includes index

I enjoyed this book; Lewis does a reasonable job of presenting his arguments as to why theism is reasonable, why miracles are reasonable, and what criteria can be used for judging miracle. My main annoyance with the book is that Lewis tends to reason along the lines of "A or B, we don't like A, therefore B". For example, he makes a good case that either (a) there must be some sort of supernatural being representative of truth or (b) everything we believe to be true is just a vastly convenient fiction. He then goes on the claim the former as being the true solution even though the later is equally likely, just less comforting.

Lewis also has a tendency to define terms to suit his needs. He defines Naturalism as, amongst other things, being deterministic. Thus, he can appeal to our sense of the fitness of things to argue for theism; for example, at one point he says something like "if Naturalism is true, you are only reading this book and I am only writing it because of some inevitable chain of events". At another time, he claims that quantum mechanics cannot really be part of nature because it admits nondeterminism. Another way to interpret these limitations of his definition is to wonder, as I did, whether his definition of Naturalism might not just be pure rhetorical BS. Lewis does better in the later parts of the books when he switches to arguments that are just as rational as before but drops the claim to be proving anything.

Very philosophical, ad you would expect from a book about miracles. He talks about the likelihood and nature both of miracles in general and those specific to the Christian faith.
Many if his points were abstract. I could grasp them if I had a quiet room and really focused. Not very helpful to your daily life, predictably, but informative and beneficial to those who enjoy pondering such things. ( )