Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings

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Together in one special volume, selections from the best of beloved, bestselling author C. S. Lewiss classic works for readers contemplating the grand miracle of Jesuss resurrection.
Preparing for Easter is a concise, handy companion for the faithful of all Christian traditions and the curious to help them deepen their knowledge and consideration of this holy season a time of reflection as we consider Jesuss sacrifice and his joyous rise from the dead.

Carefully curated, each selection in Preparing for Easter draws on a major theme in Lewiss writings on the Christian life, as well as others that consider why we can have confident faith in what happened on the cross.

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He has quite a unique power for making theology an attractive, exciting and fascinating quest Times Literary Supplement

I find I am constantly realising that I owe many of my most basic convictions about Christian faith to Lewiss imagination Rowan Williams

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Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classic, The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.