My Thoughts: C.S. Lewis Explores Vice and Virtue

Any C.S. Lewis fans out there? This book is for the C.S. Lewis die-hards, or people who are very into medieval thought. Lewis was a Medieval scholar, and as a consequence of that, he was very deeply influenced by what was called Virtue Theory or Virtue Tradition. This is what this book is all about. It explores the Virtue Theory ideas that are resident in Lewis’ works. If Lewis were alive and were to write a book on medieval thought, then it would look something like this. Gerard Reed is a philosophy professor at Point Loma and I think that he puts this book together masterfully. This is a man that knows C.S. Lewis and all of his works like the back of his hand. He quotes Lewis very nicely and integrates many of Lewis’ ideas with his own very well. This book is a gold mine of quotes especially from Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine.

This book will give you greater insight obviously to Lewis’ writings, but to people like Aquinas, Augustine, and even to the Bible. The information in C.S. Lewis Explores Vice and Virtue is quantity with much quality. When reading this book, I saw just how far from virtue the world, our country, our town, our schools, our churches, our families, and our friends really are. But most importantly, this book motivated me because it shows just how far from virtue that I am. This realization is very humbling. Final rating = 4.5 stars out of 5.

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