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The Neo-Platonic Christianity Of C. S. Lewis, Richard L. W. Clarke
The Neo-Platonic Christianity Of C. S. Lewis, Richard L. W. Clarke
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
I shall attempt to show how Lewis’s fusion of Platonism with Christianity gives rise to his belief, metaphysically speaking, that the physical universe is not all there is but, rather, “transposes” (as he terms it) a greater non-physical or spiritual reality and is, as such, part of a divinely-ordained, orderly, and purposeful scheme of things. I shall also argue that for Lewis, epistemologically speaking, knowledge of this grand design and the place of humans therein is conveyed not through the human senses, at least as these are conventionally conceived, but, rather, through our higher reason, which is capable of objective …
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 Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring The History, Meaning, & Relevance Of C. S. Lewis’S Greatest Book (Dvd), Jeff Gissing
Review Of Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring The History, Meaning, & Relevance Of C. S. Lewis’S Greatest Book (Dvd), Jeff Gissing
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A review of a DVD and discussion guide: Devin Brown, Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring the History, Meaning, & Relevance of C. S. Lewis’s Greatest Book (Grand Rapids, 2015). 120 pages. $12.99. ISBN: 9780310699842. Eric Metaxas (host), Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring the History, Meaning, & Relevance of C. S. Lewis’s Greatest Book, DVD (Grand Rapids, 2015). 170 minutes. $49.99. ISBN: 9780310699859.
Review Of C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis That Created A Classic, Bruce R. Johnson
Review Of C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis That Created A Classic, Bruce R. Johnson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Paul McCusker, C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis That Created a Classic (Carol Stream, Illinois, 2014). x + 230 pages + 8 pages of photographs. $14.99. ISBN 9781624053221.
Review Of The Lost Letters Of Cornelius Van Til To C. S. Lewis, Lyle W. Dorsett
Review Of The Lost Letters Of Cornelius Van Til To C. S. Lewis, Lyle W. Dorsett
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Jomo K. Johnson, The Lost Letters of Cornelius Van Til to C. S. Lewis (Philadelphia, 2012). Kindle Edition, 30 pages. $2.99. ASIN: B007WZAYNE.
Review Of C. S. Lewis And The Crisis Of A Christian, Stephen Beard
Review Of C. S. Lewis And The Crisis Of A Christian, Stephen Beard
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Gregory S. Cootsona, C. S. Lewis and the Crisis of a Christian (Louisville, 2014). 169 pages. $16.00. ISBN 9780664239404.
Review Of C. S. Lewis: Revelation And The Christ, Austin Freeman
Review Of C. S. Lewis: Revelation And The Christ, Austin Freeman
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of P. H. Brazier. C. S. Lewis: Revelation and the Christ (Eugene, OR, 2012). Book 1: C. S. Lewis: Revelation, Conversion, and Apologetics. 316 pages. $25.20. ISBN 978- 1610977180. Book 2: C. S. Lewis—The Work of Christ Revealed. 320 pages. $31.50. ISBN 9781610977197. Book 3.1: C. S. Lewis—On the Christ of a Religious Economy: I. Creation and Sub-Creation. 318 pages. $32.13. ISBN 9781610977203. Book 3.2: C. S. Lewis—On the Christ of a Religious Economy: II. Knowing Salvation. 344 pages. $38.00. ISBN 9781620329825. Book 4: C. S. Lewis—An Annotated Bibliography and Resource. 208 pages. $16.20. ISBN 9781610979061.
“The Weight Of Glory”: C. S. Lewis’ Most Pathetic Sermon 89 Toby F. Coley, Toby F. Coley
“The Weight Of Glory”: C. S. Lewis’ Most Pathetic Sermon 89 Toby F. Coley, Toby F. Coley
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
A rhetorical analysis of C. S. Lewis's acclaimed sermon, "The Weight of Glory."
Review Of Pursuing An Earthy Spirituality: C. S. Lewis And Incarnational Faith, Joel D. Heck
Review Of Pursuing An Earthy Spirituality: C. S. Lewis And Incarnational Faith, Joel D. Heck
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Gary S. Selby, Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality: C. S. Lewis and Incarnational Faith (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2019). 216 pages. $22.00. ISBN 9780830852369.
Review Of How To Be A Christian: Reflections And Essays, Kevin Belmonte
Review Of How To Be A Christian: Reflections And Essays, Kevin Belmonte
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of C. S. Lewis, How to Be a Christian: Reflections and Essays (New York: HarperOne, 2018). xvi + 186 pages. $22.99. ISBN 9780062849939.
Review Of C. S. Lewis’ Little Book Of Wisdom: Meditations On Faith, Life, Love, And Literature, Torri Frye
Review Of C. S. Lewis’ Little Book Of Wisdom: Meditations On Faith, Life, Love, And Literature, Torri Frye
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis’ Little Book of Wisdom: Meditations on Faith, Life, Love, and Literature, compiled by Andrea Kirk Assaf and Kelly Anne Leathy (Charlottesville, Virginia: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2018). 383 pages. $15.95. ISBN 9781571748454.
Review Of Symbol Or Substance? A Dialogue On The Eucharist With C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham, And J. R. R. Tolkien, Jennifer Neyhart
Review Of Symbol Or Substance? A Dialogue On The Eucharist With C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham, And J. R. R. Tolkien, Jennifer Neyhart
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Peter Kreeft, Symbol or Substance? A Dialogue on the Eucharist with C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham, and J. R. R. Tolkien (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2019). 232 pages. $16.95. ISBN 9781621642756.
Review Of “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back At C. S. Lewis, Gale Watkins
Review Of “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back At C. S. Lewis, Gale Watkins
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of C. J. S. Hayward, “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back at C. S. Lewis (Wheaton, Illinois: C. J. S. Hayward Publications, 2000-19). 381 pages. $49.99. ISBN 9781794669956.
Review Of The Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, And Legacy Of C. S. Lewis, Reggie Weems
Review Of The Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, And Legacy Of C. S. Lewis, Reggie Weems
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Michael J. Gehring, The Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, and Legacy of C. S. Lewis (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2017). xi + 250 pages. $32.70. ISBN 9781498290067.
Alec Vidler’S Permanent Opposition: C. S. Lewis, Joel Heck
Alec Vidler’S Permanent Opposition: C. S. Lewis, Joel Heck
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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.
“Further Up And Further In”: Roads, Pilgrim’S Regress And Sehnsucht On Earth And In Heaven, Lauren Spohn
“Further Up And Further In”: Roads, Pilgrim’S Regress And Sehnsucht On Earth And In Heaven, Lauren Spohn
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
First, in his 1933 allegory The Pilgrim’s Regress and, later, in his 1955 autobiography Surprised by Joy, C. S. Lewis described his conversion to Christianity as a journey guided by the search for what he called “Joy.” In the 1943 foreword to Regress, Lewis defines this feeling as an “intense longing” that “pierces us like a rapier”; later in Surprised by Joy, he calls it a desire of “almost sickening intensity,” best captured by the German word Sehnsucht. David Downing offers a helpful formulation of this “Sweet Desire” as “the blissful ache for some paradise out of reach,” which acts …
C. S. Lewis’S “Transposition”: Text And Context, Arend Smilde
C. S. Lewis’S “Transposition”: Text And Context, Arend Smilde
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
“Transposition” was originally a sermon for Whitsunday (Pentecost), preached in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford, around the end of the Second World War. Taking his cue from the miraculous “speaking in tongues” described in Acts 2, Lewis addresses the problem of “the obvious continuity between things which are admittedly natural and things which, it is claimed, are spiritual.”
Review Of Sunbeams And Bottles: The Theology, Thought, And Reading Of C. S. Lewis, Charlie W. Starr
Review Of Sunbeams And Bottles: The Theology, Thought, And Reading Of C. S. Lewis, Charlie W. Starr
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of James Prothero. Sunbeams and Bottles: The Theology, Thought, and Reading of C. S. Lewis. (Hamden, CT: Winged Lion Press, 2022). 442 pages. $22.99. ISBN 9781935688327.
Review Of C. S. Lewis For Beginners, Bruce R. Johnson
Review Of C. S. Lewis For Beginners, Bruce R. Johnson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Louis Markos, C. S. Lewis for Beginners, illus. by Joe Lee (Danbury, CT: For Beginners, 2022). viii + 192 pages. $15.95. ISBN: 97819399940806.
Review Of A Hebraic Inkling: C. S. Lewis On Judaism And The Jews, Erin Seidel
Review Of A Hebraic Inkling: C. S. Lewis On Judaism And The Jews, Erin Seidel
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of P. H. Brazier, A Hebraic Inkling: C. S. Lewis on Judaism and the Jews (Eugene, OR, Pickwick Publications, 2021). 301 pages. $34.99. ISBN 9781725291973
Review Of The Devil: A Very Short Introduction, Cory Grewell
Review Of The Devil: A Very Short Introduction, Cory Grewell
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Darren Oldridge, The Devil: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012). 114 pages. $11.95. ISBN: 9780199580996.
Review Of C. S. Lewis Vs The New Atheists, David Baird
Review Of C. S. Lewis Vs The New Atheists, David Baird
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Peter S. Williams, C. S. Lewis vs the New Atheists (Milton Keynes, 2013). 275 pages. $17.99. ISBN: 9781842277706.
Review Of Reflections From Plato’S Cave: Essays In Evangelistic Philosophy, Crystal Hurd
Review Of Reflections From Plato’S Cave: Essays In Evangelistic Philosophy, Crystal Hurd
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Donald T. Williams, Reflections from Plato’s Cave: Essays in Evangelistic Philosophy (Lynchburg, VA, 2012). 288 pages. $13.49. ISBN: 9780615589107.
Review Of The Michael Letters: Heaven’S Answer To Screwtape, David Harden
Review Of The Michael Letters: Heaven’S Answer To Screwtape, David Harden
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Jim Peschke, The Michael Letters: Heaven’s Answer to Screwtape (Charleston, 2010). viii + 130 pages. $10.95. ISBN: 9781453660270.
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
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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.