What we are:

We are a small group, mostly members of Strathkinness Parish Church but also from surrounding churches, who meet together once a month for good, wide ranging, open-minded discussion based on the book we chose to read that month.

July 2006

Miracles
by CS Lewis

Do Miracles really happen? "The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way fro this, or results from this." This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C.S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in creation. Using his characteristic warmth, lucidity, and wit, Lewis challenges the rationalists and cynics who are mired in their lack of imagination and provides a poetic and joyous affirmation that miracles really do occur in our everyday lives.

In this text, Lewis attempts to show that a Christian must not only accept but also rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the personal involvement of God in his creation. He challenges the rationalists, agnostics and deists on their own grounds.
This book is, as with many of CS Lewis's works, much-loved by many. For those sceptical about the possibility of miracles, Lewis surveys deep philoso-phical territory, but in a way that non-philosophers can understand.

"If I were ever to stray into the Christian camp, it would be because of Lewis's arguments as expressed in books like Miracles." -- Kenneth Tynan

"I read Lewis for comfort and pleasure many years ago, and a glance into the books revives my old admiration." -- John Updike

(we will be discussing Miracles at the July meeting)

(summary from amazon.co.uk and apologetics.org)