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	Critical Summary and Overview - Surprised by Joy
		Lewis views himself in Surprised by Joy as no more or less a sinner than anyone else, but it is chiefly his intellectual journey that needs charting; his is not a grand repentance from fleshly indulgence but a recovery of a child-like wonderment at the world and its mysteries.
		Surprised by Joy is essentially an account of those factors that brought Lewis to a mature, adult Christian faith.
		It is in Surprised by Joy, for example, that one learns the extent to which Lewis is indebted to a romantic view of both life and culture, that is, a mindset in which reason and imagination are held in tension at all times and neither is allowed to dominate or cancel out the other.
	personal.bgsu.edu /~edwards/surprised.html (2430 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Surprised by Joy (The C.S. Lewis Signature Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lewis was for many years an atheist, and in Surprised by Joy he vividly describes the spiritual quest which eventually convinced him of the truth and reality of the Christian faith.
		JOY is the Holy Spirit coming to you at a most unexpected time.
		When I saw the title, I thought the book must have been about how he and Joy met each other and that since he was an older man when he married, he was "surprised by Joy." Funny thought, but not the case.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006280838 (980 words)

	The Relation of Thought and Emotion in "Surprised by Joy"
		In the sonnet "Surprised by Joy," William Wordsworth relates an episode of his struggle to cope with the death of his young daughter.
		"Surprised by Joy" is a Miltonic sonnet with the turn occurring roughly in the middle of the first line of the sestet.
		The joy and love that initially overtake the narrator can be seen as a sign that he is ready to abjure his grief-ridden thoughts and recognize a lingering spiritual bond with his daughter.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Depts/WritingCenter/starns.html (1304 words)

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		Joy is a practice and joy is the fruit of practice.
		Joy is supported by a mind of peace and understanding, while sorrow, without such stable support, rests upon loss, or fear, or disappointment.
		Joy and sorrow are not equal because a mind of joy can cope with sorrow and lessen it, while a mind of sorrow cannot increase joy.
	www.uucckingston.org /Sermons/joy.html (2533 words)

	Lewis, Beverluis, and the Argument from Desire
		Joy took him gradually from a rationalistic atheism to a belief in another world, a transcendental reality from which humankind came and to which, in some sense, it belonged.
		Hence Joy may in fact be fulfilled, in a given case, in an as-yet unknown experience; or it may be that all instances of Joy are in fact a species of recurrent temporary insanity; and both of these roads were taken by Lewis's Mr.
		Joy told Lewis that there was a world beyond, infinitely desirable; but Theism told him there was an angel at the entrance to this garden, armed with a flaming sword, Who might bar the entrance.
	homepage.mac.com /edcook/lewis-desire.html (4201 words)

	Literature Network Forums - "Surprised by Joy" "La Belle Dame Sans Merc-
		The poet is "surprised" by joy - obviously after the death of the one he laments, Joy had been a strange emotion to him.
		But suddenly Joy took him unawares and forgetting that she was no longer there he turns to share it with her- and then comes the realization that of course she is no more.
		That realization, according to Wordsworth, that he COULD still be "surprised by Joy" enough to forget her, was almost the worst moment he had ever experienced, the only worse moment being the actual pang at the time of her death.
	www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?t=795&goto=nextoldest (461 words)

	The Question of God . Surprised by Joy \| PBS
		I saw that all my waitings and watchings for Joy, all my vain hopes to find some mental content on which I could, so to speak, lay my finger and say "This is it," had been a futile attempt to contemplate the enjoyed.
		Joy itself, considered simply as an event in my own mind, turned out to be of no value at all.
		And that is why we experience Joy: we yearn, rightly, for that unity which we can never reach except by ceasing to be the separate phenomenal beings called "we." Joy was not a deception.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/questionofgod/ownwords/joy.html (3179 words)

	all things William
		There is one joy of reading, another of painting, and another of writing, but none to compare with the thrill which comes to one who, loving Nature in all her moods, is about to start on a voyage of discovery to a land familiar in dreams alone.
		Joy is a constituent of life, a necessity of life; it is an element of life's value and life's power.
		The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.
	allthingswilliam.com /joy.html (1346 words)

	Surprised by Joy. A sermon on Ecclesiastes preached by Susan Durber at St Columba's URC, Oxford
		And we can surely imagine that he was astonished at other times too - joyfully surprised to meet his friends unexpectedly, happy at the birth of a baby or the news of a marriage, bowled over by the beauty of a sunset, delighted when people did respond to his teaching and turn to God.
		Joy being not simply happiness or pleasure, but that longing, that restlessness for eternity - which will never let us settle for the banal and the commonplace, but leaves us searching and yearning for … for God.
		To be truly human is to be open to the unpredictable, to be prepared to be taken aback, to be surprised by joy.
	website.lineone.net /~susandurber/sermon97.html (1875 words)

	Joy and Sehnsucht
		For Lewis, joy is at the heart of Christianity—it is the gigantic secret that compels women and men into the company of the Cross and characterizes the fruit of their sufferings.
		Joy was the divine carrot that persuaded such a self-proclaimed donkey as Lewis to plod down the road toward Jerusalem.
		The coincidence of Lewis’s wife’s name was compounded by the fact that his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, was published at the time she was becoming an integral and happy part of his life.
	www.leaderu.com /marshill/mhr08/hall1.html (5957 words)

	SURPRISED BY JOY!
		Joy has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again...I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world.
		Joy was something I never really had a grasp on, I thought it was one of those Christmas words, so it was the furthest thing from my mind.
		Joy is merriment without frivolity, hilarity without raucousness, and mirth without cruelty.
	www.christiangoth.com /joy.html (1572 words)

	Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society: "SURPRISED BY JOY": JOY IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AND IN ...
		And, the book has a surprise ending, where Lewis discovers that what he was searching for was not "Joy" at all.
		For Lewis, the essential component of "Joy" is a deep-seated longing for something that is supremely desirable.
		he defines "Joy," then, as "an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."10 he sharply distinguishes "Joy" from happiness or pleasure, which are much more oriented to the immediate, to gratifications of various types, most of them instant, ephemeral, and, in the end, not satisfying over a long term.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200403/ai_n9400827 (1504 words)

	“Surprised By Joy”:
		Lewis is not attempting a technical study of joy in the biblical sense, either in the Old Testament or the New Testament.
		As I have reflected on what Lewis wrote, and the biblical concept of joy, it is clear that joy is intended by God to be something that we humans very much do experience, even “enjoy” (in the normal sense, not Alexander’s).
		As I reflected on this moment, I was very moved to see an 18-year-old girl (the character in the play) who had had a consciousness throughout her short life of looking forward to the day when she would meet her Savior.
	www.bethel.edu /~dhoward/articles/SurprisedByJoy.htm (6716 words)

	Surprised by Joy
		The announcer at Dr. Joy's Boston outlet (WMEX-AM, noon to 2 p.m.) exhorts its listeners to heed "a real doctor, not that slut on the other station." Nevertheless, across the nation Dr. Laura attracts 14.25 million weekly listeners, compared with Browne's 6.25 million.
		And in many markets, the demise of Browne's television show was quickly followed by the TV debut of her more judgmental rival-though Schlessinger's on-camera scoldings have to date drawn both low ratings and protests from gay activists and other critics.
		A consummate multitasker, she autographs a picture for a Tuxedo Park matron who swears by Dr. Joy's advice to never, but never, comment on your son's girlfriend, acknowledges accolades from a woman she cured of agoraphobia, and returns phone messages scribbled on paper scraps.
	www.numag.neu.edu /0101/browne.html (2011 words)

	Experiencing Joy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He believed that joy was a key part of the Christian life, one too often neglected.
		Happy are those who hear the joyful call to worship, for they will walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
		The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
	www.cbn.com /spirituallife/cbnteachingsheets/promises_joy.asp?option=print (481 words)

	Casuarina \| Rates
		The 'Surprised by Joy' package was devised in response to the atrocities which occurred in September 2001 resulting in the conflict in Afghanistan.
		The purpose of 'Surprised by joy' is to bring back into our lives the simple pleasures and beauty of the world we all love and share.
		For those who choose the package, envelopes in a basket in rooms will reveal what we have considered to be the simple joys in life.
	www.casuarina.com /hotel/rates-joy.html (128 words)

	Surprised By Joy In A Troubled Time
		We may be hard pressed to be joyful this season with the tragedy of September 11, a "war on terrorism," and a slumping economy - in addition to our normal, everyday problems.
		The juxtaposition of this joyful season and the solemn national mood became all the more real to me on a December 11th "Journey of Faith," a pilgrimage to Ground Zero by an interfaith delegation from Rochester.
		Joy is able to take into itself sadness and loneliness, pain and death, and still affirm life.
	www.rochesterunitarian.org /2001-02/20011223.html (1662 words)

	Document TitleSTB-95-06 SURPRISED BY JOY! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In fact, it is in these moments when the commonplace and the usual are suddenly made extraordinary, when there is suddenly revealed new significance or new beauty, or when a new empathy between human beings smiles that we find ourselves surprised by joy.
		To them there must have come moments of joy when what had been so carefully crafted was hoisted into place and became part of the growing fabric-- when stone by stone the magnificent nave enclosed the space where a multitude of people would look up and feel themselves in the very presence of God.
		How often here in our lodges of preparation we are surprised by joy when a new understanding, like a burst of creative light, emerges from the ritual.
	www.mastermason.com /3rdnorthern/library/stb-95-06.htm (1389 words)

	Sermon Topic
		Text: I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
		The joy of Jesus Christ is waiting to be claimed in your life as his disciple.
		Jones said, "True joy is not a thing of moods, not a capricious emotion, tied to fluctuating experiences.
	www.trinitypresbytx.org /sermons/230525.html (1503 words)

	Surprised by Joy - Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They were preparing to go to China to pick up their second adopted daughter, Stevey Joy, whose story will be chronicled on the November 2 episode of the television series Adoption on the Hallmark Channel.
		As I sat there that Sunday looking at this multicolored family, knowing their full gamut of joy and suffering, I felt God speak to me so clearly: This picture you're looking at is a picture of the gospel.
		Indeed, you are our glory and joy." It was as if God was reminding me that when I stand before Christ, the only thing I'll have to show for this life are the spiritual children I've been a part of bringing into his kingdom.
	www.christianitytoday.com /tcw/2003/006/1.40.html (3500 words)

	Surprised By Joy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is the kind of joy that makes you laugh out loud and cry at the same time.
		In the midst of our sorrow he surprises us with the outrageous news that the very worst thing in the world, has turned out to be the best news in the world!
		They have found a joy which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life.
	members.aol.com /lcsharpe/000423.html (1719 words)

	eBay - Book: Surprised by Joy (ISBN: 0156870118) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		C.S. Lewis documents his search for joy, starting with his childhood in Belfast, through a period of atheism, and then back to Christianity through a course of rational thought.
		Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
		Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Le
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	Sermons
		Easter was a surprise to the women who went to the tomb early on the morning of the resurrection.
		They were surprised and upset that Jesus was arrested, put on trial, condemned to death and actually crucified.
		It was a time of hope and joy before the people understood what their hope and joy was all about.
	www.trinitylakejo.org /Sermons.htm (4775 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Fairy Tales and the Religious Imagination: Adam Gopnik on C.S. Lewis
		I read Surprised by Joy as a grad student, and a grad student I'm working with now recently gave me The Abolition of Man.
		In Surprised by Joy, one sees a writer whose imaginative life is apparently animated primarily by fairy tales, but who turns to religion as a way to amplify and order the joy his imaginative worlds give him.
		The irrational images—the street lamp in the snow and the silver chair and the speaking horse—are as much an escape for the Christian imagination as for the rationalist, and we sense a deeper joy in Lewis’s prose as it escapes from the demands of Christian belief into the darker realm of magic.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/11/fairy-tales-and-religious-imagination.html (1405 words)

	Excerpts from "Surprised by Joy" by C.S. Lewis
		Excerpts from "Surprised by Joy" by C.S. Lewis
		George MacDonald had done more to me than any other writer; of course it was a pity that he had that bee in his bonnet about Christianity.
		I knew now that they were merely the mental track left by the passage of Joy - not the wave but the wave's imprint on the sand.
	www.geocities.com /yahmdallah/surbyjoy.html (3532 words)

	Founder Interview
		Reverend Dr. Sandra Bochonok, "Surprised By Joy", is the founder and pastoral leader of Soul Food Ministry.
		I was surprised at how expensive, difficult and time consuming multilingual work could be, especially when translators struggled with word equivalents.
		But my biggest surprise was an email from my Zimbabwean friend, when she informed me of the difficulties and sufferings of her nation.
	www.soulfoodministry.org /Friends/FounderInterview.htm (1720 words)

	C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: Quotations and Allusions
		Lewis’s autobiography Surprised by Joy (1955), like most of his books, contains a great number of allusions to unspecified sources, including literal quotations.
		Surprised by joy – impatient as the wind: Wordsworth, “Surprised by joy” (Sonnet, 1815)
		He had just died at the time when Surprised by Joy was published.
	www.solcon.nl /arendsmilde/cslewis/reflections/e-sbjquotes.htm (3416 words)

	Into the Wardrobe :: a C. S. Lewis web site
		Her amazement continues upon reading his biography and learning that at the time of his conversion he was "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England" (Surprised 28-29).
		These reluctant conversions share at least five common points: the presence of a mentor to guide the convert, the convert exercising his free will, the presence of supernatural forces which, optimally, drive the convert to submission, pain associated with the conversion process, and a blessing or curse as a consequence of the choice.
		Despite his brilliance and his desire to not be interfered with (Surprised 228), Lewis never would have converted if it had not been for mentors, both friends and books, instructing him and leading him to a faith in Christ.
	cslewis.drzeus.net /papers/reluctant.html (2601 words)

	Sermon: Surprised by Joy
		is full of surprises’, so goes the platitude.
		Someone pointed me this week to one of the surprises of the season, the useless gift.
		There is such a visceral, profound hope-filled joy in children.
	www.christchurchsummit.org /Sermons-2000/001217-SurprisedByJoy.html (2116 words)

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