Can the two men ever reach a resolution or will Shyam be left with more questions than answers and a void he will never be able to fill? Defender of the Faith is a powerful story of love, loss, resilience, and hope as an Indian boy comes of age and embraces Western values that cause friction between his father and him. While Europe heads toward war, Shyam and his orthodox Hindu father become immersed in a moral struggle that erupts from a volcano of religious fanaticism and age-old traditions. As Shyam’s life journey leads him to a missionary college in Nagpur, he embraces Western influences that prompt him to question traditions and wisdom acquired through centuries. While fearing he will be starved, branded, and sent to an orphanage, Shyam matures within his small, poor family while the political and social upheavals of the century threaten to destroy all of them. As he grows up motherless in central India, Shyam is treated like a stepchild. The question is not if but when the event will happen. The family astrologer, who is never wrong, has predicted that Shyam will encounter three, near-death accidents and will not survive the third.
OF MAHARASHTRA, INDIA Almost everyone in the Shirodkar household knows Shyam is a doomed child. ✏The Defender of the Faith Book Summary : BEST MARATHI NOVEL AWARD OF 2017 BY GOVT. Richard Cunningham evaluates the different kinds of literature Lewis uses as apologetic instruments, studies the devices and techniques of debate he employs to communicate his faith to unbelievers, and deduces some pertinent principles to help others define and understand the Christian faith. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it.' His books are unusual because he believed that 'reason is the organ of truth imagination is the organ of meaning.' In the infernal correspondence of Screwtape, the haunting myths of his trilogy of space fiction, and the allegories of the Narnia books, he tries to bring the reader suddenly face to face with transcendental values and existential questions. 'Any fool can write learned language,' he said. This study of his work inquires what it is about his faith, his view of the world, and his apologetic methods that strikes such a responsive chord in the hearts of unchurched people and it shows how he made the old ideas of traditional Christianity 'glimmer and glow with simplicity and attractiveness.' Lewis took up his apologetic pen because he felt that most theologians are talking jargon. His literary skill, his brilliant and wide-ranging mind, and his multi-layered imagination made him a master of communication and gave him insight into what should be communicated.
But he is perhaps best known as the 'unorthodox defender of orthodoxy,' the most popular and influential Christian apologist of his time. Lewis was a man of many talents: a literary critic, a Medieval and Renaissance scholar, a stimulating lecturer, a prolific writer, a perceptive critic of Western civilization, and the author of highly acclaimed children's books. ✏C S Lewis Defender of the Faith Book Summary : C.
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