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Review Of Inklings Of Heaven: C. S. Lewis And Eschatology, P. H. Brazier
Review Of Inklings Of Heaven: C. S. Lewis And Eschatology, P. H. Brazier
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Sean Connolly, Inklings of Heaven: C. S. Lewis and Eschatology (Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, 2007). 324 pages. $35.00. ISBN: 9780852446591.
Review Of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives Of The Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Joel D. Heck
Review Of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives Of The Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Joel D. Heck
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015). 644 pages. $17.00. ISBN 9780374536251.
Review Of Beren And Luthien, Jonthan B. Himes
Review Of Beren And Luthien, Jonthan B. Himes
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of J. R. R. Tolkien, Beren and Luthien, ed. by Christopher Tolkien (New York: HarperCollins, 2017). 288 pages. $30.00. ISBN 9781328791825.
Review Of The Golden Key: A Victorian Fairy Tale, Tiffany Brooke Martin
Review Of The Golden Key: A Victorian Fairy Tale, Tiffany Brooke Martin
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of George MacDonald, The Golden Key: A Victorian Fairy Tale, illustrated by Ruth Sanderson (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016). 136 pages, including “Afterward” and “Illustrator’s Note.” $16.00. ISBN 9780802854568.
Review Of C. S. Lewis And The Art Of Writing: What The Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic, Apologist, Memoirist, Theologian Teaches Us About The Life And Craft Of Writing, Kevin Belmonte
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Corey Latta, C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing: What the Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic, Apologist, Memoirist, Theologian Teaches Us about the Life and Craft of Writing (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2016). ix + 239 pages. $24.00. ISBN 9781498225342.
Review Of Jack Lewis And His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study Of Instructive Affinities, John Stanifer
Review Of Jack Lewis And His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study Of Instructive Affinities, John Stanifer
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of D. G. Kehl, Jack Lewis and His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study of Instructive Affinities (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2013). ix + 247 pages. $29.00. ISBN 9781610978361.
Review Of A Well Of Wonder: Essays On C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, And The Inklings, Corey Latta
Review Of A Well Of Wonder: Essays On C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, And The Inklings, Corey Latta
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Clyde S. Kilby, A Well of Wonder: Essays on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Inklings, ed. by Loren Wilkinson and Keith Call (Brewster, Massachusetts: Paraclete Press, 2016). vii + 348 pages, including “A Tribute to Clyde S. Kilby.” $28.99. ISBN 9781612618623.
Review Of High Towers And Strong Places: A Political History Of Middle- Earth, Dominic J. Nardi
Review Of High Towers And Strong Places: A Political History Of Middle- Earth, Dominic J. Nardi
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Timothy R. Furnish, High Towers and Strong Places: A Political History of Middle- earth (Toronto: Oloris Publishing, 2016). 166 pages. $35.00. ISBN 9781940992518.
Review Of The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien And Their Circle, Matthew Carey Jordan
Review Of The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien And Their Circle, Matthew Carey Jordan
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Colin Duriez, The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle (Oxford: Lion Hudson Books, 2015). 296 pages, including full-color photograph inserts, “An Inklings Gallery,” and “A Select Inklings Chronology.” $16.95. ISBN 9780745956343.
“Evil Enchantment” Versus Platonic Vision: Dante, Lewis, And The Weight Of Glory, Jason Baxter
“Evil Enchantment” Versus Platonic Vision: Dante, Lewis, And The Weight Of Glory, Jason Baxter
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
C. S. Lewis was convinced that, in the modern world, goodness often strikes us as bland and diluted, a kind of spiritual neutral. What we need, especially in the modern world, he thought, is a positive vision of the good, a vision of beauties that “pierce like swords or burn like cold iron,” as he once said of Tolkien’s work. We need a positive picture and we need to have positive desire, as opposed to thinking of goodness primarily in negative terms, as “not being bad.” Lewis thought we need to have a sense of the gravity and heaviness and, …
Paradise Retained: C. S. Lewis On The Nature Of Knowledge, Reality, And Morality In Perelandra, Richard L. W. Clarke
Paradise Retained: C. S. Lewis On The Nature Of Knowledge, Reality, And Morality In Perelandra, Richard L. W. Clarke
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
The world-view which informs Perelandra (1943) in particular and the so-called “space trilogy” more generally, of which it is the second volume, is deeply infused with that blend of Christianity and Platonism that is the hallmark of the thought of C. S. Lewis and which I explore at some length in the companion essay to this piece in this volume, “The Neoplatonic Christianity of C. S. Lewis.” Perelandra is, I would argue, a literary rendition of some of the most important philosophical arguments in defense of Christianity mounted by Lewis in Mere Christianity and elsewhere.
Review Of Joy And Poetic Imagination: Understanding C. S. Lewis’S “Great War” With Owen Barfield And Its Significance For Lewis’S Conversion And Writings, Jennifer Raimundo
Review Of Joy And Poetic Imagination: Understanding C. S. Lewis’S “Great War” With Owen Barfield And Its Significance For Lewis’S Conversion And Writings, Jennifer Raimundo
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Stephen Thorson, Joy and Poetic Imagination: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s “Great War” with Owen Barfield and its Significance for Lewis’s Conversion and Writings (Hamden, 2015). xii + 294 pages. $18.50. ISBN: 9781935668107.
Review Of Gaining A Face: The Romanticism Of C. S. Lewis, Sarah King
Review Of Gaining A Face: The Romanticism Of C. S. Lewis, Sarah King
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of James Prothero and Donald T. Williams, Gaining a Face: The Romanticism of C. S. Lewis (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013). x+ 92 pages. $59.99. ISBN: 9781443852357.
Review Of C. S. Lewis’S Mere Christianity: A Biography, Bruce R. Johnson
Review Of C. S. Lewis’S Mere Christianity: A Biography, Bruce R. Johnson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of George M. Marsden, C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography, Lives of Great Religious Books Series (Princeton, 2016). 262 pages. $24.95. ISBN: 9780691153735.
Review Of Restoring Beauty: The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In The Writings Of C. S. Lewis, David Russell Mosley
Review Of Restoring Beauty: The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In The Writings Of C. S. Lewis, David Russell Mosley
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Louis Markos, Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (Downers Grove, 2010). 215 pages. $20.00. ISBN: 9780830857456.
Review Of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, Suzanne Bray
Review Of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, Suzanne Bray
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Grevel Lindop, Charles Williams: The Third Inkling (Oxford, 2015). vii + 493 pages. $34.95. ISBN: 9780199284153.
Review Of T. S. Eliot And The Christian Tradition, Stephen Barber
Review Of T. S. Eliot And The Christian Tradition, Stephen Barber
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Benjamin G. Lockerd, ed., T. S. Eliot and the Christian Tradition (Lanham, Maryland, 2014). viii + 358 pages. $49.99. ISBN: 9781611477139.
Review Of Image And Imagination. Essays And Reviews, Charles W. Connell
Review Of Image And Imagination. Essays And Reviews, Charles W. Connell
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of C. S. Lewis, Image and Imagination. Essays and Reviews, ed. by Walter Hooper (Cambridge, 2013). xv + 379 pages. $19.99. ISBN: 9781107639270.
Review Of Reading C. S. Lewis: A Commentary, Bruce R. Johnson
Review Of Reading C. S. Lewis: A Commentary, Bruce R. Johnson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Wesley A. Kort, Reading C. S. Lewis: A Commentary (New York, 2016). xii + 299 pages. $29.95. ISBN: 9780190221348.
Review Of Both Sides Of The Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, And Everyday Discipleship, Jonathan Himes
Review Of Both Sides Of The Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, And Everyday Discipleship, Jonathan Himes
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Rob Fennell, ed., Both Sides of the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, and Everyday Discipleship (Eugene, 2015). xii + 101 pages. $15.00. ISBN: 9781498229876.
Review Of Bringing Narnia Home: Lessons From The Other Side Of The Wardrobe, David Mcnaughton
Review Of Bringing Narnia Home: Lessons From The Other Side Of The Wardrobe, David Mcnaughton
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of Devin Brown, Bringing Narnia Home: Lessons from the Other Side of the Wardrobe (Nashville, 2015). xii + 131 pages. $12.99. ISBN: 9781426791628.
New Stages In The Study Of Lewis’ Poetry, Charles A. Huttar
New Stages In The Study Of Lewis’ Poetry, Charles A. Huttar
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review essay on C. S. Lewis, The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition, ed. by Don W. King (Kent, Ohio, 2015). 485 pages. $75.00. ISBN: 9781606352021.
“Happily Ever After” For The Twenty-First Century? Sex, Love, And Human Identity In C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia, Monika B. Hilder
“Happily Ever After” For The Twenty-First Century? Sex, Love, And Human Identity In C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia, Monika B. Hilder
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
For better and for worse, classic fairy tales have come under severe criticism as paradigms of sexist patriarchy in recent decades. Likewise, C. S. Lewis has been viewed as sexist, even misogynistic. While many fairy tale and Lewis fans might be tempted to dismiss all of these criticisms as nonsense, gender is one of the predominant discourses of our time, our questions and the varied answers are significant, and in this essay I consider how Lewis’ development of the fairy tale genre in The Chronicles of Narnia offers timeless, possibly even surprising, Christian wisdom. How does Lewis portray sex, love, …
Conflict, Forgiveness, And The Healing Of Harms In C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia, Jeffrey A. Misener
Conflict, Forgiveness, And The Healing Of Harms In C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia, Jeffrey A. Misener
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Excerpt: "In The Chronicles of Narnia, children are celebrated as models of heroic potential in the ways they realize, apologize for, and repent of sinful words and deeds. This is in keeping with C. S. Lewis’ desire that his young readers would recognize and practice these virtues as signs of the “childlike faith” Jesus expects of his disciples (Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17).92 Conversely, adults are generally shown to be owners of an obtuse conscience and a recalcitrant will.
C. S. Lewis And The Occult Temptation, Thomas Garrett Isham
C. S. Lewis And The Occult Temptation, Thomas Garrett Isham
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Twice in his life C. S. Lewis encountered—and greatly admired—authors involved in occult theory and practice.1 The first such figure was William Butler Yeats, the second, more than two decades later, Charles Williams. Lewis reacted to their occult preoccupations in quite different ways, even while acknowledging his continuing fascination with the subject.
Review Of C. S. Lewis’S Perelandra: Reshaping The Image Of The Cosmos, Sørina Higgins
Review Of C. S. Lewis’S Perelandra: Reshaping The Image Of The Cosmos, Sørina Higgins
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe, eds., C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos (Kent, OH, 2013). 160 pages. $40.00. ISBN 9781606351833.
Review Of A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, And A Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien And C. S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, And Heroism In The Cataclysm Of 1914-18, James Prothero
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Joseph Loconte, A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 (Nashville, 2015). 256 pages. $14.90. ISBN: 9780718021764.
Review Of A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections From The Chronicles Of Narnia, Bruce L. Edwards
Review Of A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections From The Chronicles Of Narnia, Bruce L. Edwards
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of C. S. Lewis, A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia, ed. by Julia L. Roller (San Francisco, 2010). 480 pages. $22.99. ISBN 9780061985515.
Review Of The Pilgrim’S Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, Arend Smilde
Review Of The Pilgrim’S Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, Arend Smilde
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, ed. and introduced by David C. Downing; illustrated by Michael Hague (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2014). xxiv + 239 pages. $25.00. ISBN 9780802872081.
Review Of The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), William O'Flaherty
Review Of The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), William O'Flaherty
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of C. S. Lewis, The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), ed. by Paul F. Ford, Patricia S. Klein, and Julia L. Roller (San Francisco, 1994-2014). 11,325 pages. Logos Bible Software. $399.95.