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First Summer Book Review: The Pilgrim's Regress


My first book read for the summer from C.S. Lewis is "The Pilgrim's Regress." ............ (Dots represent my screaming!)

  Many chapters I had to make myself go back and read over and over again.  I read a chapter to my husband and he got it easily.  But then this book is the first book after C.S. Lewis conversion to Christ after quite the intellectual journey for him.  A similar path that my husband took in his early 20's.  

C.S. Lewis states, "I  now realise, for the obscurity.  On the intellectual side my own progress had been from 'popular realism' to Philosophical Idealism; from Idealism to Pantheism; from Pantheism to Theism; and from Theism to Christianity.  I still think this a very natural road, but I now know that it is a road very rarely trodden."

Did I get any sympathy from him or did he rescue me?  HA  No, he told me how the chapters are divided up into thoughts, philosophies and ways of thinking and I need to look each of those up and understand the thinking before I read the chapter.  

Thankfully for me, on the top of each page was a small sentence or word describing what was happening.  Some examples: Hell as a tourniquet; human choice; tough-mindedness revealed as a form of pride; as virtue increases so does the temptation to Pride and many others.

I have to admit that I didn't read it as thoroughly as I should have but wanted to finish it and get a basic "walk through" of the book which I did.  Success!!!!!

I will read it again.   But not this summer.

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