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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
by C.S. Lewis
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
8vo (6 x 9) Stated First American Edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles and rose window monogram, housed in an unclipped dust jacket (3.50). Neat ownership inscription to front endpaper and minor creasing to top edge of dust jacket at rear panel.
Lewis's first posthumously published title, a brief epistolary discourse on the subject of prayer with his friend 'Malcolm'. A beautiful copy in archival mylar.
Synopsis
C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—shares his understanding of the role of prayer in our lives and the ways we might better imagine our relationship with God. Composed as a collection of fictitious dispatches to his friend, Malcolm, Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer considers this basic display of devotion in its form, content, and regularity, and the ways it both reflects our faith and shapes how we believe. -C.S. Lewis Official Website. "We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are." What are we doing when we pray? What is at the heart of this most intimate conversation, the dialogue between a person and God? How does prayer—its form, its regularity, its content, its insistence—shape who we are and how we believe? In this collection of letters from C. S. Lewis to a close friend, Malcolm, we see an intimate side of Lewis as he considers all aspects of prayer and how this singular ritual impacts the lives and souls of the faithful. With depth, wit, and intelligence, as well as his sincere sense of a continued spiritual journey, Lewis brings us closer to understanding the role of prayer in our lives and the ways in which we might better imagine our relationship with God. "A beautifully executed and deeply moving little book." — Saturday Review "[Lewis] is writing about a path that he had to find, and the reader feels not so much that he is listening to what C.S. Lewis has to say but that he is making his own search with a humorous, sensible friend beside him." — Times Literary Supplement C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, including The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters , The Four Loves , Mere Christianity , and Surprised by Joy .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heaven-Haven Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B-120
- Title
- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
- Author
- C.S. Lewis
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christianity;
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