The Four Loves
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The Four Loves
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Narrated by:
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C.S. Lewis
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By:
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C. S. Lewis
Summary
A remarkable audio edition of C.S. Lewis' beloved classic—the only existing recording of Lewis reading his own work.
C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—explores the essence of love and how it works in our daily lives in one of his most famous works of nonfiction based on his series of radio talks from 1958.
With penetrating logic and charming wit, Lewis explores the four aspects of love: affection, the most basic form; friendship, the rarest and perhaps most insightful; Eros, passionate love; and charity, the greatest and least selfish.
Lewis exposes the pitfalls in our loves, leading us to the agape love that God has for humankind and the type of love we must develop to nurture our relationships. Throughout this compassionate and methodical study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love—the key to understanding that brings us closer to God.
- Features vintage BBC narration by C.S. Lewis
- New introduction and commentary by Charles Colson
- Discussion questions available in the audiobook companion PDF download
Very interesting!
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must read by all people who want to love
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Lewis at his incisive best
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What made the experience of listening to The Four Loves the most enjoyable?
It was wonderful to hear the voice of C.S. Lewis reading his own book - I've never heard a recording of him before.What did you like best about this story?
The Four Loves is an interesting little book. I'm not sure I agree with all that Lewis says in it, and I think I'll need to listen to it again before I understand some things, but everything is clear, well-defended and sensible in classic Lewis style. It isn't a difficult book in the sense that it can only be understood by the very intelligent or the philosophically-minded (neither of which descriptions ought to be applied to me), but it still managed to give me a feeling of having listened to something important.What does C.S. Lewis bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
His voice! Some of the points he makes in The Four Loves are very simple and everyday, but some take more thought to get your head around. Listening to what he places most emphasis on helps to highlight the important bits in places where fools like me blink in confusion!Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No - the book itself is very conveniently divided up into four distinct chapters (the Audible version pairs these up to have two chapters). I stopped after each one to let what had been said sink in a bit.Any additional comments?
I could have done without the inane 'commentary' of the guy who popped up a few times to say 'Hey! Here's another chapter! C.S.Lewis is totally awesome'. It was unnecessary and added nothing whatsoever to The Four Loves. On the other hand, there was so little of it that it really didn't impact on the book itself at all.Classic, appealing Lewis
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Unfortunately, some imbecile has taped onto this a series of "commentaries" or rather Introductions that are Appalling in three ways:
1) Although recorded nearly 50 years later than C. S. Lewis's talks the sound quality is disgraceful! The buzzy, muffled voice sounds like it was scratched onto a wax cylinder!
2) These are called commentaries but rather than coming after each talk they come before. Alright, but then give a summary (the majority of them are direct quotes) of what you are about to hear (including the conclusions!) and adds NOTHING original or additional to Lewis's own observations.
This would make sense if Lewis was an ancient, academic theologian that needed explanation to a modern audience but Lewis was The great populist theologian! His great acclaim came from his ability to communicate ideas previously the domain of scholars and priests to the ordinary man or woman on the street (it's why he was asked to do the talks in the first place). It's like sticking a post it note on a book by Dickens with a summary of the plot (ending and all). Underminding the "thought experiment" Lewis is taking us through.
3) Finally, it isn't even accurate or basically researched. They continually say that these talks are based on Lewis's book 'The Four Loves' but it is the other way around! He gave these talks and Later decided to go deeper into the subject by writing a book.
So 5 star performance, content and overall to Lewis.
0 star for the brainless, talentless clowns whose hands these gems have fallen into and have set in a cheap plastic bangle.
5 for C.S. Lewis 0 for abhorrent Introductions!
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