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Title: A severe mercy : C. S. Lewis and a pagan love invaded by Christ, told by one of the lovers by Sheldon Vanauken ISBN: 0340224398 Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 4

Rating: 2
Summary: An View into Christian Sexism
Comment: What's always interesting about this book is how it serves as a litmus test for the general character of those reading it, and the unspoken gender assumptions that come from it. From a woman's perspective, this book is palatable only by those who see a woman's place in the same manner as those who espouse a conservative christian view - a woman is an object of adoration, but her place in the relationship between God, husband and wife, she is clearly to submit. To me, it is so incredibly apparent that as she has her conversion experience, she begins to fall out of love with Sheldon. Awoken to the ugliness of the world that is seen through God's eyes, Sheldon sees this as an enlightened conscience, whereas many women today may see it as 'high dissapointment' at a faith system that instead of bringing her a promised grace, tears her into a judeo-christian framework of reality that is harsh, unloving and highly sexist. Sheldon's love before and after the conversion is adult infatuation, and I find it telling that so many men view this as a compelling love story - they are unable to see past a woman as an object.

Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing!
Comment: "A Severe Mercy" is so much more than a love story. Reading through this book quickly doesn't do it justice. You HAVE to take it one chapter at a time and really soak it in. Not only is he telling us how much he loved her, he is showing us how God loves and uses life to teach. I used to live in the town in which this story is told and I've spoken to many of his ex-students, they paint a picture of a man even more amazing than this book lets on. I would also highly recommend Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

Rating: 5
Summary: Are you in love?
Comment: If you are, ever have been, or plan to one day be in love, you must read this book. Vanauken, through correspondence with Oxford don C.S. Lewis, discovers the source of all true love. Vanauken and his life slowly discover that when Christ's love is left untapped, all other love is mere emotion. Sound foreign? Read this book.