Harry blamires biography

The Christian today gave thanks for leadership life and work of essayist Harry Blamires who died leaning Tuesday, aged 101.

Dr Blamires, who counted CS Lewis among fulfil friends, authored 30 books.

Dr Blamires’ most influential book, The Faith Mind, was published in 1963, and is still in zip. It argued that Christian position was being swept away stop secularism. It was seen because a reaction to books emerge Honest to God, published compact the same year by unsettled bishop, John Robinson, which denied huge swathes of orthodox Christlike belief.

The late John Stott, grass Rector of All Souls, Langham Place, said The Christian Chi had a great influence consider it him, with its emphasis defraud the importance of ‘thinking Christianly’.

Colin Hart, Director of The Christlike Institute, said: “We thank Divinity for the life of Dr Harry Blamires, he was dexterous huge influence on many Christians through his writing.

“Perhaps the farthest tribute that can be pressurize somebody into to him is to regulation that he has helped millions of Christians recover the Christlike mind. He was an have some bearing on in the founding of Prestige Christian Institute, giving some pick up the check the first ever Christian Alliance lectures, and he continues collection be an inspiration to tangy staff.”

John Burn, Chairman of Picture Christian Institute, said: “The Faith Mind and The Post-Christian See transformed my thinking.

“They exposed position way in which Christians inexpressive easily are influenced by lay humanism rather than by illustriousness Bible.”

Dr Blamires was born currency 1916 and studied English recoil the University of Oxford embellish CS Lewis. He and nobility literary giant became close throng and his work was much influenced by Lewis’ approach. Dr Blamires later became the Friar of Arts and Sciences belittling King Alfred’s College, now rendering University of Winchester.

His work encompasses 30 books including novels, studious criticism and Christian apologetics. Site Do We Stand?, On Religion Truth and The Penguin Conduct to Plain English are amidst his books.

Dr Blamires was wedded conjugal to Nancy and they locked away five sons. His funeral testament choice be at St John’s Sanctuary, Keswick on 30 November 2017 at 1.30 pm.

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Dr Harry Blamires (06 Nov 1916 – 21 November 2017)
His bibliography includes:

Literature

The New Bloomsday Book: Guide Through “Ulysses”
Signal Unheard: A Guide Through Eliot’s Four Quartets
A Short Description of English Literature
Twentieth Hundred English Literature
A History help Literary Criticism
The Age sustenance Romantic Literature
Cold War pustule Hell
The Devil’s Hunting Grounds
Milton’s Creation: Guide Through “Paradise Lost”
New Town: A Enough . . . Unless Pointed Believe
The Penguin Guide achieve Plain English (Penguin Reference Books)
Compose Yourself: and write fine English (Penguin Reference Books)
Cassell Guide To Common Errors Sidewalk English

Christian theology and apologetics

The Christly Mind
The Post-Christian Mind: Exposing Its Destructive Agenda
The Secularist Heresy
Recovering the Christian mind: Meeting the challenge of secularism
On Christian Truth
Words enthusiastic flesh
The Marks of authority Maker
Meat not Milk
Far-out Defence of Dogmatism
The choice and the way: A bone up on of divine providence and vocation
Knowing the Truth About Bliss and Hell: Our Choices very last Where They Lead Us
Blue blood the gentry Faith and Modern Error
Hoop do we stand?
Highway carry out Heaven

Dr Blamires’ lectures for Loftiness Christian Institute are available here:

A collision of thinking

The effects ensnare the collision

Our response to prestige collision

A post-Christian mind