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Review Of As One Devil To Another. A Fiendish Correspondence In The Tradition Of C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, David G. Clark
Review Of As One Devil To Another. A Fiendish Correspondence In The Tradition Of C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, David G. Clark
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Review of Richard Platt, As One Devil to Another. A Fiendish Correspondence in the Tradition of C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters (Carol Stream, IL, 2012). xi + 196 pages. $15.99. ISBN: 9781414371665.
Review Of An Answer To C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, Greg Anderson
Review Of An Answer To C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, Greg Anderson
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Review of Bob Johnson, An Answer to C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity (Escondido, CA, 2010). vii + 154 pages. $13.76. ISBN: 9780939040193.
Review Of The C. S. Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity And The Public Sphere, Suzanne Bray
Review Of The C. S. Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity And The Public Sphere, Suzanne Bray
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Review of Samuel Joeckel, The C. S. Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (Macon, GA, 2013). 427 pages. $30.00. ISBN: 9780881464375.
Review Of Mere Lewis: A Critique Of C. S. Lewis’S “Mere Christianity”, Joel D. Heck
Review Of Mere Lewis: A Critique Of C. S. Lewis’S “Mere Christianity”, Joel D. Heck
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Review of Craig A. Hart, Mere Lewis: A Critique of C. S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity” (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2011). 80 pages. Kindle edition. $0.99. ISBN: 9781468128892.1
Review Of C. S. Lewis: Twentieth Century Pilgrim, Laura Schmidt
Review Of C. S. Lewis: Twentieth Century Pilgrim, Laura Schmidt
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Review of Janet Hamilton, C. S. Lewis: Twentieth Century Pilgrim (Greensboro, NC, 2011). 128 pages. $28.95. ISBN: 9781599351124.
Review Of C. S. Lewis Goes To Heaven: A Reader’S Guide To The Great Divorce, Charles A. Huttar
Review Of C. S. Lewis Goes To Heaven: A Reader’S Guide To The Great Divorce, Charles A. Huttar
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Review of David G. Clark, C. S. Lewis Goes to Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to The Great Divorce (Hamden, CT, 2012). xxi + 181 pages. $14.95. ISBN: 9781936294091.
Review Of Screwtape’S Master Plan. A Satirical Take On Christianity And Culture, David G. Clark
Review Of Screwtape’S Master Plan. A Satirical Take On Christianity And Culture, David G. Clark
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Review of Charles H. Anderton, Screwtape’s Master Plan. A Satirical Take on Christianity and Culture (Eugene, OR, 2012. x + 88 pages. $14.00. ISBN: 9781610979252.
Hell And Damnation, Freedom And Responsibility, P. H. Brazier
Hell And Damnation, Freedom And Responsibility, P. H. Brazier
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A review essay on Joel Buenting, ed., The Problem of Hell: A Philosophical Anthology (Farnham, 2010). 236 pages. $88.84. ISBN: 9780754667636, and Jordan C. Ferrier, Calvin and C. S. Lewis: Solving the Riddle of the Reformation (Allendale, 2010). 172 pages. $8.99. ISBN: 9781479101283.
No End In Sight, Sørina Higgins
No End In Sight, Sørina Higgins
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A review essay on three biographies of C. S. Lewis: Alister McGrath, C. S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Carol Stream, IL, 2013). $19.25. 448 pages. ISBN: 9781414339351; Devin Brown, A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis (Grand Rapids, MI, 2013). $11.90. 256 pages. ISBN: 9781587433351; and Duriez, Colin, C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship (Oxford, 2013). $13.34. 256 pages. ISBN: 9780745955872.
C. S. Lewis As Spiritual Mentor By Mail, David C. Downing
C. S. Lewis As Spiritual Mentor By Mail, David C. Downing
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Lewis’ published correspondence provides a kind of autobiography-in-progress, and it offers a revealing glimpse of his opinions as a literary and culture critic. But perhaps the letters of most permanent value are those which Lewis saw as a part of his Christian vocation: his insights to friends, casual acquaintances and complete strangers about questions of theology, faith, spiritual formation, and even marriage and family relationships. In his later years, letter-writing became a burdensome task for Lewis. In one note, he mentions that he had composed thirty-five letters that day. In another, he mentions that he had just spent nine hours …
The Continuing (Ir) Relevance Of C.S. Lewis, Robert Macswain
The Continuing (Ir) Relevance Of C.S. Lewis, Robert Macswain
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found myself profoundly frustrated with the polarization that became evident between Lewis’ friends and foes, devotees and detractors. At the extremes of this debate were those who apparently regarded Lewis’ work as, for all intents and purposes, Holy Writ; at the other end of it were those who, for whatever reason, regarded Lewis with disdain and contempt. Sane, balanced, objective, sympathetically-critical and critically-sympathetic assessments seemed so rare as to be almost non-existent. The devotional attitude was largely characteristic of the United States, where I had grown up; and the disdain and contempt seemed especially prevalent in England, where I was …
Review Of Lewis On The Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human In The Presence Of God, Jennifer Neyhart
Review Of Lewis On The Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human In The Presence Of God, Jennifer Neyhart
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Review of Joe Rigney, Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018). 310 pages. $21.99. ISBN 9781433550553.
Review Of Further Up And Further In: Orthodox Conversations With C. S. Lewis On Scripture & Theology, Gale Watkins
Review Of Further Up And Further In: Orthodox Conversations With C. S. Lewis On Scripture & Theology, Gale Watkins
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Review of Edith M. Humphrey, Further Up and Further In: Orthodox Conversations with C. S. Lewis on Scripture & Theology (Yonkers, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2017). 301 pages. $28.00. ISBN 9780881415971.
The Spectrum Of Human Nature From Anthroposophy To Radical Difference From God In Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis, And Karl Barth, Stephen Thorson
The Spectrum Of Human Nature From Anthroposophy To Radical Difference From God In Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis, And Karl Barth, Stephen Thorson
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Among many achievements, Barth redefined the problem of objectivity in theology as well as proposed a theological anthropology of continuing influence. The question of objectivity also exercised the minds of C. S. Lewis and his close friend, Owen Barfield, during that same decade, leading to their own versions of idealist anthropology. Although Lewis claimed that the resulting epistolary controversy between them was a “major turning point” in his life,6 scholars of Lewis’s life and works, including biographers, have largely ignored this hint, and skipped this part of his intellectual conversion.7 Their debate began over objectivity in human knowledge, especially in …
In Memory: Walter Hooper (1931-2020), Steven A. Beebe
In Memory: Walter Hooper (1931-2020), Steven A. Beebe
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Review Of Apologetics And The Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach To Defending The Faith, Corey Latta
Review Of Apologetics And The Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach To Defending The Faith, Corey Latta
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Review of: Holly Ordway, Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith (Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Road, 2017). 195 pages. $22.95. ISBN 9781945125386.
Review Of Preparing For Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings From C.S. Lewis, Gina Dalfonzo
Review Of Preparing For Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings From C.S. Lewis, Gina Dalfonzo
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Review of: C. S. Lewis, Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis (New York: HarperOne, 2017). xi + 215 pages. $17.99. ISBN 9780062641649.
Review Of How To Pray: Reflections And Essays, David N. Beckmann
Review Of How To Pray: Reflections And Essays, David N. Beckmann
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Review of: C. S. Lewis, How To Pray: Reflections and Essays (New York: HarperOne, 2018). 157 pages. $22.99. ISBN 9780062847133.
Review Of From Atheism To Christianity: The Story Of C.S. Lewis, Kevin Belmonte
Review Of From Atheism To Christianity: The Story Of C.S. Lewis, Kevin Belmonte
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Review of: Joel D. Heck, From Atheism to Christianity: The Story of C. S. Lewis (St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 2017). 214 pages. $14.99. ISBN 9780758657237.
The Psychology Of Hell: Privation, Exclusion, And Banishment As Symbols Of Hell In The Life Of C.S. Lewis, Reggie Weems
The Psychology Of Hell: Privation, Exclusion, And Banishment As Symbols Of Hell In The Life Of C.S. Lewis, Reggie Weems
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These few examples demonstrate that Lewis’s fundamental view of Hell was primarily influenced by Christ but also shaped by Christian history and literature. This does not mean that his choice of the particular words "privation, exclusion and banishment" is solely dependent on biblical, historical, or literary influences. It may very well be that Lewis employed these particular expressions because they represented certain traumatic Hell-on-earth experiences endured in his formative years—events that personalized the doctrine and added significant, practical weight to his academic, theological, philosophical, and literary understanding of its horrifying reality.
"The Packed Reality Of Heaven": C.S. Lewis's Imaginative Re-Education Of The Modern Pilgrim, Monika B. Hilder
"The Packed Reality Of Heaven": C.S. Lewis's Imaginative Re-Education Of The Modern Pilgrim, Monika B. Hilder
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
How to think of Heaven then, which Lewis says “is, by definition, outside our experience,” when the fact is that “all intelligible descriptions must be of things within our experience” is a question that Lewis took seriously, especially since the scriptural imagery “[a]t first sight . . . chill[ed], rather than awake[ned], [his] desire.” He asked how a “typical modern” like himself might interpret the heavenly concept of glory. The first idea of fame suggested to him hellish competition; the second idea of brightness suggested the “ridiculous” image of becoming “a kind of living electric light bulb.” Indeed, he contends …
Review Of Reasoning Beyond Reason: Imagination As A Theological Source In The Work Of C. S. Lewis, Nikolay Epplée
Review Of Reasoning Beyond Reason: Imagination As A Theological Source In The Work Of C. S. Lewis, Nikolay Epplée
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Review of: J. T. Sellars, Reasoning Beyond Reason: Imagination as a Theological Source in the Work of C. S. Lewis (Eugene, 2011). 256 pages. $29.00. ISBN: 9781608995035.
Review Of C. S. Lewis And Friends: Faith And The Power Of Imagination, David Robinson
Review Of C. S. Lewis And Friends: Faith And The Power Of Imagination, David Robinson
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Review of: David Hein and Edward Henderson, eds., C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination (London, 2011). 159 pages. $18.00. ISBN: 9780281062249.
Review Of The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith And The Discipleship Of The Mind, P. H. Brazier
Review Of The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith And The Discipleship Of The Mind, P. H. Brazier
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Review of Alister McGrath, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind (Downers Grove, 2010). 210 pages. $22.00. ISBN: 9780830838431
"There Is No Emperor": Merlin And The Ideal State In That Hideous Strength, L. S.B. Maccoull
"There Is No Emperor": Merlin And The Ideal State In That Hideous Strength, L. S.B. Maccoull
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C. S. Lewis’ Merlin has been brought forward from the sixth century. In the world he knew, though there was no longer a Roman Emperor in the West, there certainly was an Emperor reigning in Constantinople who could be called upon for aid. A closer look at Lewis’ depiction of Byzantium reveals what role the positive qualities he attributed to the city played in the development of his own views regarding the nature of the realm (or world) we should strive to realize here on earth.
"A Dreadful Thing": C.S. Lewis And The Experinces Of War, Timothy J. Demy
"A Dreadful Thing": C.S. Lewis And The Experinces Of War, Timothy J. Demy
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From a Christian perspective, war entails the death and killing of people who are all created in the image of God and therefore have inherent dignity and incalculable worth. And yet, even after experiencing war at firsthand, C. S. Lewis believed that war is sometimes justifiable and necessary.
Like others of his generation, Lewis was deeply affected by the experience of war. He lived through the First and Second World Wars, serving as an officer on the Western Front between November 1917 and April 1918. His brother Warren (“Warnie”) was a career officer serving in the British army in both …
A Friend's Death: C.S. Lewis' Disagreement With St. Augustine, Jason Lepojärvi
A Friend's Death: C.S. Lewis' Disagreement With St. Augustine, Jason Lepojärvi
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Lewis did nothing to conceal his admiration of—and theological pedigree to—Augustine: as he wrote, Augustine “is a great saint and a great thinker to whom my old glad debts are incalculable.”3 This is why the only time he explicitly disagrees with Augustine on an important point concerning love, he does so “with trembling.”4 Lewis’ sentiments in having to disagree with Augustine may be comparable to Stanley Hauerwas disagreeing with Lewis. It is difficult, Hauerwas wrote, “to criticize a writer who has done so much good as C. S. Lewis.”5 The purpose of the present article is to evaluate the gentlemanly …
Jack Lewis And His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study Of Instructive Affinities, D. G. Kehl
Jack Lewis And His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study Of Instructive Affinities, D. G. Kehl
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
When he was a student at Oxford University, C. S. Lewis wrote to a friend expressing his great admiration of and enthusiasm for the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, particularly The House of the Seven Gables and Transformation (British title of The Marble Faun). This study examines the parallels between these two kindred spirits and their works, focusing on their similar worldviews, their personal backgrounds and lifestyles, and the "Ultimates" they both pondered. It discusses common themes in their works, such as myth, scientism, and "the great power of blackness." Their respective attitudes toward these issues and others, such as faith, …
Review Of After Humanity: A Guide To C. S. Lewis’S The Abolition Of Man, Brenton D. G. Dickieson
Review Of After Humanity: A Guide To C. S. Lewis’S The Abolition Of Man, Brenton D. G. Dickieson
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Brenton D. G. Dickieson Review of Michael Ward, After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (Park Ridge, Illinois: Word on Fire Academic, 2021). 253 pages. $24.95. ISBN 9781943243778.
Review Of The Making Of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist To Apologist, Crystal Hurd
Review Of The Making Of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist To Apologist, Crystal Hurd
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Crystal Hurd: Review of Harry Lee Poe, The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918- 1945) (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2021). 344 pages, including Notes and Index. $32.99. ISBN 9781433567834.