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    Lewis's Sehnsucht: The Longing That Led to Faith

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    Exploring Corbin Scott Carnell's analysis of C.S. Lewis's spiritual journey through 'sehnsucht'-that untranslatable longing for transcendence that shaped his transformation from atheism to Christianity and influenced all his writings.

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    If we find in ourselves desires that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

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