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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer Paperback - 1973

by C. S. Lewis


About this book

C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay 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—shares his understanding of the role of prayer in our lives and the ways we might better imagine our relationship with God. Composed as a collection of fictitious dispatches to his friend, Malcolm, Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer considers this basic display of devotion in its form, content, and regularity, and the ways it both reflects our faith and shapes how we believe. -C.S. Lewis Official Website.

"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are."

What are we doing when we pray? What is at the heart of this most intimate conversation, the dialogue between a person and God? How does prayer—its form, its regularity, its content, its insistence—shape who we are and how we believe? In this collection of letters from C. S. Lewis to a close friend, Malcolm, we see an intimate side of Lewis as he considers all aspects of prayer and how this singular ritual impacts the lives and souls of the faithful. With depth, wit, and intelligence, as well as his sincere sense of a continued spiritual journey, Lewis brings us closer to understanding the role of prayer in our lives and the ways in which we might better imagine our relationship with God.

"A beautifully executed and deeply moving little book." —Saturday Review

"[Lewis] is writing about a path that he had to find, and the reader feels not so much that he is listening to what C.S. Lewis has to say but that he is making his own search with a humorous, sensible friend beside him." —Times Literary Supplement

C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, including The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity, and Surprised by Joy.


Summary

In the form of warm, relaxed letters to a close friend, Lewis meditates on many puzzling questions concerning the intimate dialogue between man and God. Lewis also considers practical and metaphysical aspects of private prayer, petitionary prayer, the Lord’s Prayer, and other forms of prayer.

“A beautifully executed and deeply moving book” (Saturday Review).

First Edition Identification

Geoffrey Bles published the First Edition, First Printing in London, 1964. The hardcover is bound by green boards and a black label and gilt titles. 


Harcourt, Brace & World published the First US Edition in New York, 1964. The hardcover is bound by blue cloth boards and gilt lettering along spine, in Octavo.  


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  • Title Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
  • Author C. S. Lewis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 132
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
  • Date March 21, 1973
  • ISBN 9780156508803 / 015650880X
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.34 x 0.35 in (20.24 x 13.56 x 0.89 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Prayer, Christian life - Anglican authors
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 64011536
  • Dewey Decimal Code 248
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