what with the upcoming release of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, CS Lewis is hot right now. If you have never read LWW... I won't beg again here. But you are really denying yourself a treat if you haven't read any Lewis. It is simply fun learning. One suggestion is below. I'm sure you could google "weight of glory" and read it online...
"Begin with The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses. Here you will be introduced to themes that pervade Lewis’s works: “Joy,” heaven, Christian ethics, approaches to education, the background of two world wars, the meaning of myth, the importance of imagination, personal holiness, and the Body of Christ, all within the space of the less than 200 pages in most editions. Read Lewis’s famous lay-sermon, “The Weight of Glory” first. Alan Jacobs correctly maintains that “The thought expressed in those sentences is everywhere woven into the fabric of Lewis’s work.” Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Lewis’s spiritual autobiography, is another good place to start. One caution: Lewis sometimes uses abstract literary references with which first-time readers may be unfamiliar. Don’t let that stop you. The book is still well worth the effort. Obviously, any introduction to Lewis is incomplete without reading Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and the Chronicles of Narnia. If you want to read what Lewis considered his best works, read Perelandra and Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. If you are a first-timer and choose to tackle these books, be sure to have Clyde Kilby’s, The Christian World of C.S. Lewis and Images of Salvation in the Fiction of C.S. Lewis close at hand. Kilby’s introductions to these books are invaluable."
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