Discipleship in a Post-Christian Age: With a Little Help from C. S. Lewis

by Thiago Silva

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2025

Overview

This is an age where Christianity is no longer the assumed foundation of culture. Instead, secularism, relativism, and individualism shape how people think, live, and even approach faith. Many within the church have unknowingly embraced a shallow, self-focused spirituality that offers comfort without transformation. How can the church recover a robust, life-giving vision of discipleship in such a world? With a little help from C. S. Lewis, this book offers a way forward. Lewis’s insights--rooted in reason, imagination, and community--speak powerfully to this modern crisis, equipping believers to engage both mind and heart. Through cultural analysis and biblical wisdom, this book calls the church to rediscover discipleship as an intellectual, imaginative, and relational pursuit--one that forms resilient, thoughtful, and deeply rooted followers of Christ. Whether picked up by a pastor, church leader, or everyday disciple longing for deeper faith, this book will challenge and inspire readers to cultivate a Christianity that is not only true but beautiful and compelling in an increasingly post-Christian world.

Key Features

Praise for Discipleship in a Post-Christian Age

With insights from C.S. Lewis and a solid biblical understanding of discipleship, Thiago Silva calls all believers to experience the joy of wholehearted commitment to Jesus. He makes a case for Christians to integrate reason, imagination, and community through the church for a robust heart-and-mind-discipleship which overcomes the secularism, individualism, sexual confusion, and antipathy found within our culture. This is a must read for pastors and all who long to worship our Lord in spirit and in truth.

——Joel S. Woodruff, President, C.S. Lewis Institute

All who care about the church and the gospel of Jesus Christ owe a huge debt to Thiago Silva for this inspiring call to recover an authentic approach for discipleship for today. This invitation is biblically grounded, culturally relevant, and creatively shaped by the wisdom of C. S. Lewis. Silva deftly integrates the building blocks of reason, imagination, and embodied community which culminates in the ultimate goal of discipleship in grateful worship of God. Highly recommended!

——Tom Schwanda, Associate Professor of Christian Formation and Ministry, Emeritus, Wheaton College

It is fitting that Thiago Silva casts a vision for discipleship in our increasingly post-Christian age by drawing from C. S. Lewis. The mission of the C. S. Lewis Institute—in which Silva is a city director—is to carry on Lewis’s legacy by developing ‘wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ who will articulate, defend, share, and live their faith in personal and public life.’ Silva has set forth a vision for making what Lewis called ‘little Christs’: right-hearted worshipers intent on following Jesus and on corresponding to his radical teaching about the kingdom of God—the new humanity and real world inaugurated by Christ—with all their heart, soul, body, mind, and imaginative strength.

——Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Product Details

• Title: Discipleship in a Post-Christian Age: With a Little Help from C. S. Lewis
• Author: Thiago Silva
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 146
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9798385246496, 9798385246489, 9798385246472
• Resource ID: LLS:9798385246496
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-09T23:38:29Z

About Thiago Silva

Thiago Silva, received his theological education at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Brazil), Calvin Theological Seminary, and Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. Since 2022, he has lived in the United States with his wife, Lidia, and their three children. Silva serves as pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and as City Director of the C. S. Lewis Institute Lake Charles, equipping believers to think deeply, live faithfully, and engage the culture for Christ.