{"id":68910,"date":"2018-09-27T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=68910"},"modified":"2020-05-11T23:31:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T06:31:29","slug":"if-i-had-lunch-with-c-s-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/27\/if-i-had-lunch-with-c-s-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"One Minute Book Review: If I had lunch with C.S. Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/If-Had-Lunch-Lewis-Exploring\/dp\/1414383789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"622\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lunch-with-Lewis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lunch-with-Lewis.jpg 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lunch-with-Lewis-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lunch-with-Lewis-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lunch-with-Lewis-600x434.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning I finished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/If-Had-Lunch-Lewis-Exploring\/dp\/1414383789\">If I had lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the ideas of C.S. Lewis on the meaning of life<\/a>\u00a0by the well-known Lewis biographer, Alister McGrath. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was an intriguing approach to discussing Lewis&#8217; thought &#8211; imagining a series of lunches with the man himself &#8211; the dream of any C.S. Lewis fan! The book is not, as one might imagine, a fictional dialogue between the author and Lewis. Instead, in each chapter, the author looks at some topic close to Lewis&#8217; heart and provides a digestible overview of what Lewis had to say about it. Such areas of discussion include the meaning of life, friendship, the importance of stories, apologetics, education, suffering and Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a quick, enjoyable read and provides a nice alternative to the more traditional books about Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I finished If I had lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the ideas of C.S. Lewis on the meaning of life\u00a0by the well-known Lewis biographer, Alister McGrath. It was an intriguing approach to discussing Lewis&#8217; thought &#8211; imagining a series of lunches with the man himself &#8211; the dream of any C.S. Lewis fan! The book is not, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4606,1914,2969,5038],"class_list":["post-68910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","tag-alister-mcgrath","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-featured","tag-if-i-had-lunch-with-c-s-lewis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lunch-with-Lewis.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69141,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68910\/revisions\/69141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}