Puckett, Joe. <br/><br/>
The apologetics of joy :  a case for the existence of God from C. S. Lewis's argument from desire / 
Joe Puckett, Jr. ; foreword by Mark Linville. 
 - Eugene, OR :  Wipf and Stock,  2012. 
 - xx, 160 pages ;  pbk ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Part 1: C.S. Lewis and the argument from desire. The argument as presented in selected works of C.S. Lewis ; Defining "joy" as sehnsucht ; Plantinga and Lewis: balancing the mystical and the natural in sehnsucht ; A word on the different forms that the argument can take -- Part 2: Examining Beversluis's objections to the argument. Does Lewis "beg the question"? ; Does the quality of sehnsucht lack innateness? ; If "joy" is so natural and desirable then why did Lewis run away from it? ; Does the concept of sehnsucht contradict the Bible? ; Why do some people never experience what C.S. Lewis calls "joy"? -- Part 3: Haunted by desire. Echoes and evidences of the second premise ; Imagination and the heart's deep need for a happy ending ; In the defense of beauty ; Lewis, Leisure, and sehnsucht -- Part 4: Concerning the conclusion of the argument from desire. The evolutionary objection ; Is there a human gene for sehnsucht? --<br/>Appendix: the end of human desire. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781620323731 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lewis, C. S.  1898-1963. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Desire--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>God--proof.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>212.1/PUC