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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 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 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.
In Memory: Walter Hooper (1931-2020), Steven A. Beebe
In Memory: Walter Hooper (1931-2020), Steven A. Beebe
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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"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
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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 …
C.S. Lewis, Public Intellectual, Samuel Joeckel
C.S. Lewis, Public Intellectual, Samuel Joeckel
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Despite such hints and evocations, it appears that no one has attempted a systematic analysis of Lewis as a public intellectual. That is, no one has methodically employed extant theories on the concept of the public intellectual to assess how (or even whether) he fits the bill. No one has used these theories as an interpretive lens for analyzing Lewis’ writings. No one has analyzed the historical conditions during Lewis’ lifetime that pushed him into the role of public intellectual. No one has explored how Lewis adheres to the conventions of public discourse, the language of the public intellectual. And …
Back Matter (Volume 2, Issue 1), Grayson Carter
Back Matter (Volume 2, Issue 1), Grayson Carter
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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Front Matter (Volume 2, Issue 1), Grayson Carter
Front Matter (Volume 2, Issue 1), Grayson Carter
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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Backmatter (Volume 1, Issue 1), Grayson Carter
Backmatter (Volume 1, Issue 1), Grayson Carter
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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Review Essay: Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis Can Train Us To Wrestle With The Modern And Postmodern World, William Gentrup
Review Essay: Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis Can Train Us To Wrestle With The Modern And Postmodern World, William Gentrup
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A lengthy review of Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World. By Louis Markos. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2003.
ISBN 0-8054-2778-3. Pp. xv + 174. $19.99 [paper].
A Time For Joy: The Ancestry And Apologetic Force Of C.S. Lewis' Sehnsucht, James P. Helfers
A Time For Joy: The Ancestry And Apologetic Force Of C.S. Lewis' Sehnsucht, James P. Helfers
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Excerpt: "In sum, it is clear that Lewis owes a great debt to Wordsworth’s idea of Joy, a debt he acknowledges explicitly through the title of his autobiography. Their views of the experience have much in common: for both it is an intense long- ing, for both it undergirds their sense of the reality of an eternal realm, as well as guiding them toward either virtue (in Wordsworth’s case) or a contemplation of and belief in the eternal (in Lewis’ case). Both of their experiences connect, ei- ther explicitly or implicitly, with the philosophical notion of the sublime. There are …