INFLUENCE ON FORMATION CHURCH’S PERSPECTIVE ON SPIRITUAL FORMATION:

Lewis contributes Formation Church’s use of imagination and reason in formation. Desire becomes a guide toward God’s deeper reality.

• Moral formation of the whole person
• Imagination shaping faith
• Desire pointing beyond itself

Key Works: Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Weight of Glory

Core Teachings:

• Christian faith is both deeply rational and imaginatively compelling.
• Desire and joy point beyond themselves to God.
• Discipleship involves moral formation of the whole person.

Signature Themes:

• Apologetics and imagination
• Desire and joy
• Moral and spiritual formation

Primary Writings & Major Editions:

• S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
• S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters.
• S. Lewis, The Great Divorce.
• S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (sermons and essays).
• S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia (for imaginative formation).