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Review Of "The Right To Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right Of The People Or A Privilege Of The Ruling Class", Jaclyn Lee Parrott

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Religion And Atheism In Everyday Day Life Of The Ukrainian Educators In The 1920s-1930s, Oleksandr Lukyanenko, Vitaly Dmytrenko, Vita Dmytrenko

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The article illustrates the process of formation of the atheist worldview of Soviet citizens under the pressure of Bolshevik propaganda in the context of student-teaching communities of higher educational institutions of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The study shows two poles of the life of teachers: the limit of involvement in the work in the societies of militant God-fighters and the marginal position of the believers with all the resulting negative consequences for the personality, which the atheistic totalitarian state tried to create for a person. Along with highlighting the state-wide patterns of the anti-religious struggle in the Ukrainian socialist …

Review: Oliver Jens Schmitt, Biserica De Stat Sau Biserică În Stat? O Istorie A Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, Editura Humanitas, București, 2023, Csaba Szabó

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

A review of Oliver Jens Schmitt, Biserica de stat sau biserică în stat? O istorie a Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, Editura Humanitas, București, 2023. 457pp.

ISBN: 978-973-50-7919-2

Review Of C. S. Lewis’ Top Ten Influential Books And Authors (Volumes 1 & 2), Lyle W. Dorsett

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A review of Will Vaus, C. S. Lewis’ Top Ten Influential Books and Authors, Volume 1 (Hamden, 2014). 165 pages. $14.99. ISBN: 9781935688082, and of Will Vaus, C. S. Lewis’ Top Ten Influential Books and Authors, Volume 2 (Hamden, 2015). 253 pages. $14.99. ISBN: 9781935688099.

Review Of Joy: Poet, Seeker, And The Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis, And Of Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study Of Joy Davidman, Kat Coffin

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A review of Abigail Santamaria, Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis (New York, 2015), ix + 414 pages, $28.00. ISBN: 9780151013715, and of Don King, Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman (Grand Rapids, 2015), ix + 254 pages, $17.99. ISBN: 9780802869364.

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.

Lost Letters Of Lewis At The Lambeth Palace Library, Gregory Anderson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Three recently discovered letters from C. S. Lewis provide a window through which we can observe the Oxford don as he is first coming into national prominence during, and immediately after, World War II. They are a 1942 letter from C. S. Lewis to Archbishop William Temple and two 1946 letters from him to Canon Lewis John Collins. Lewis is seen in these letters struggling with the issue of calling or vocation, and this gives us a glimpse into his decision making at critical times both in his career and in the life of his country.

“The Exact Programme A Particular Country Wishes To Have” : C. S. Lewis’ Literary Broadcast For Iceland, Suzanne Bray

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

In December 2015, Harry Lee Poe created somewhat of a sensation by revealing that he had found, on eBay, a Joint Broadcasting Committee 78 rpm record with two out of four parts of a previously unknown talk given by C. S. Lewis to the people of Iceland during the Second World War, entitled “The Norse Spirit in English Literature.”2 At the beginning of the talk Lewis states that “he [does] not know why he ha[s] been asked to address the people of Iceland” and Harry Lee Poe admits that “how Lewis came to be recruited and by whom remains a …

Review Of C. S. Lewis And The Island Of His Birth: The Places, The Stories, And The Inspiration, Crystal Hurd

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Review of Sandy Smith, C. S. Lewis and the Island of His Birth: The Places, the Stories, and the Inspiration (Belfast, 2013). 188 pages. $31.98. ISBN 9781908188458.

Review Of C. S. Lewis At War: The Dramatic Story Behind Mere Christianity, Bruce R. Johnson

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Review of Paul McCusker, C. S. Lewis at War: The Dramatic Story Behind Mere Christianity (Carol Stream, Illinois, 2014). 8 audio CDs. $39.99. ISBN 9781624052187.

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

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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

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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.

Alec Vidler’S Permanent Opposition: C. S. Lewis, Joel Heck

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Alexander Roper “Alec” Vidler was born on December 27, 1899, a little more than a year after C. S. Lewis. His career encompassed that of an Anglican priest, theologian, and historian. This essay will explore the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Alec Vidler, their views on theology and related writings, and the reasons their correspondence ceased after nine years.

Review Of The Completion Of C. S. Lewis: From War To Joy, Crystal Hurd

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Review of Harry Lee Poe, The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy (1945-1963), (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022), 352 pages plus notes and index, $34.99, ISBN 9781433571022.

Review Of The Unknown Garden Of Another’S Heart: The Surprising Friendship Between C. S. Lewis And Arthur Greeves, Jason Lepojärvi

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Review of Joseph A. Kohm Jr., The Unknown Garden of Another’s Heart: The Surprising Friendship between C. S. Lewis and Arthur Greeves (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2022). 114 pages. $21.00. ISBN 9781666710403.

Review Of The Undiscovered C. S. Lewis: Essays In Memory Of Christopher W. Mitchell, Brian C. Roden

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Review of Bruce R. Johnson, ed., The Undiscovered C. S. Lewis: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Mitchell (Hamden, CT: Winged Lion Press, 2021). 389 pages. $24.99. ISBN 978193568813.

Review Of No Ordinary People: 21 Friendships Of C. S. Lewis, Josiah Peterson

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Review of Joel D. Heck, No Ordinary People: 21 Friendships of C. S. Lewis (Hamden, CT: Winged Lion Press, 2021). 384 pages. $19.50. ISBN 9781935688228.

Review Of The Medieval Mind Of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped A Great Mind, William Gentrup

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Review of Jason M. Baxter, The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2022). 166 pages. $22.00. ISBN 9781514001646.

The Reading Life Of Young Jack Lewis, 1914-1917, Harry Lee Poe

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Excerpt: "What follows is a list of what young Lewis read for his lessons with W. T. Kirkpatrick (over 50 works) and what he read for pleasure (over 150 works). He probably read more than this, but this is all that can be documented. We know that he read many of these books two times or more while at Gastons, because his letters to Arthur Greeves every week were full of discussions of what he was reading at the time."

Three University College Tutors: Arthur Blackburne Poynton, E. F. Carritt, And George Hope Stevenson, Joel D. Heck

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A study of the three most important tutors C. S. Lewis had as an undergraduate (Arthur Blackburne Poynton, E. F. Carritt, and George Hope Stevenson), and Lewis's relationship with them.

Which Image Triggered C. S. Lewis’S Enthusiasm For Wagner’S Ring Cycle?, Norbert Feinendegen

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

In his autobiography Surprised by Joy, C. S. Lewis recounts a seminal moment that occurred quite early in his life but had an enormous impact on his spiritual development....He saw one of Rackham’s paintings and at the same time read the words Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods. This triggered an intense experience of Joy—the first since his childhood days—and established his lifelong fascination with Norse mythology....The actual source of Lewis’s teenage encounter with Northernness appears to have eluded biographers thus far. After an exhaustive search, I have only been able to find one issue of a contemporary literary …

Review Of The Intellectual World Of C. S. Lewis, J. Cameron Moore

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Review of Alister E. McGrath, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis (Oxford, 2013). 191 pages. $32.95. ISBN: 9780470672792.

Review Of C. S. Lewis And The Middle Ages, William Gentrup

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Review of Robert Boenig, C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (Kent, OH, 2012). 181 pages. $55.00. ISBN: 9781606351147.

C. S. Lewis As Spiritual Mentor By Mail, David C. Downing

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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 …

Review Of Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography Of Young Jack Lewis, Crystal Hurd

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Review of Harry Lee Poe, Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898- 1918) (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019). 276 pages + notes and index. $22.99. ISBN 9781433562730.

In Memory: Walter Hooper (1931-2020), Steven A. Beebe

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Review Of C.S. Lewis And Bede Griffiths: Chief Companions, William Gentrup

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Review of: Ron Dart, C.S. Lewis and Bede Griffiths: Chief Companions (Abbotsford, BC, Canada: St. Macrina Press, 2016). 62 pages. $9.95. ISBN 9781530176434

Review Of Women And C.S. Lewis, Jennifer Neyhart

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Review of: Carolyn Curtis and Mary Pomroy Key, eds., Women and C. S. Lewis (Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2015). 287 pages. $17.95. ISBN 9780745956947.

The Efforts Of C.S. Lewis To Aid British Prisoners Of War During World War Ii, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Edward Sniders is not the only prisoner of war to have received counsel and encouragement from C. S. Lewis during World War II. In fact, Lewis found three different ways to support various British prisoners in their time of extreme need. He did this through supervising the selection of religious books sent to POW camp libraries, developing with J. R. R. Tolkien an English Literature study course and examination for POWs, and writing to individual prisoners. The present article will explore each of these three efforts.

Review Of Second Friends: C. S. Lewis And Ronald Knox In Conversation, Malcolm Guite

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Review of: Milton T. Walsh, Second Friends: C. S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation (San Francisco, 2008). 360 pages. $16.95. ISBN: 9781586172404.