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020			_a9781620323731
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100			_aPuckett, Joe.
245			_aThe apologetics of joy : _ba case for the existence of God from C. S. Lewis's argument from desire / _cJoe Puckett, Jr. ; foreword by Mark Linville.
260			_aEugene, OR : _bWipf and Stock, _c2012.
300			_axx, 160 pages ; _bpbk ; _c23 cm.
505			_aPart 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 --
505			_aPart 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"? --
505			_aPart 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 --
505			_aPart 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.
600			_aLewis, C. S. _q(Clive Staples), _d1898-1963.
650			_aDesire _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650			_aGod _xproof.
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