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The Apologetics of Joy

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

PART 1. C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Desire

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Argument as Presented in Selected Works of C. S. Lewis

Chapter 2. Defining Joy as Sehnsucht

Chapter 3. Plantinga and Lewis: Balancing the Mysticaland the Natural in Sehnsucht

Chapter 4. A Word on the Different Forms that the Argument Can Take

PART 2. Examining Beversluis’s Objections to the Argument

Introduction

Chapter 5. Does Lewis “Beg The Question”?

Chapter 6. Does The Quality of Sehnsucht Lack “Innateness”?

Chapter 7. If “Joy” Is So Natural and Desirable,Then Why Did Lewis Run Away from It?

Chapter 8. Does the Concept of Sehnsucht Contradict the Bible?

Chapter 9. Why Do Some People Never Experience What C. S. Lewis Calls “Joy”?

PART 3. Haunted by Desire

Introduction

Chapter 10. Echoes and Evidences of the Second Premise

Chapter 11. Imagination and the Heart’s Deep Need for a Happy Ending

Chapter 12. In the Defense of Beauty

Chapter 13. Lewis, Leisure, and Sehnsucht

PART 4. Concerning the Conclusion of the Argument from Desire

Introduction

Chapter 14. The Evolutionary Objection

Chapter 15. Is There a Human Gene For Sehnsucht?

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

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