TY  - BOOK
AU  - Puckett, Joe.
TI  - The apologetics of joy: a case for the existence of God from C. S. Lewis's argument from desire 
SN  - 9781620323731
U1  - 212.1/PUC 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Eugene, OR
PB  - Wipf and Stock
KW  - Lewis, C. S. 
KW  - Desire
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - God
KW  - proof
N1  - 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? --
Appendix: the end of human desire
ER  -