Review Of High Towers And Strong Places: A Political History Of Middle-
Earth,
2023
University of Michigan
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,
2023
Auburn University at Montgomery
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,
2023
Wyoming Catholic College
“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,
2023
University of the
West Indies
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,
2023
Signum University
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,
2023
George Fox University
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,
2023
Scottsdale Presbyterian Church
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,
2023
Signum University
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 T. S. Eliot And The Christian Tradition,
2023
George Fox University
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 Charles Williams: The Third Inkling,
2023
Lille Catholic University
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 Image And Imagination. Essays And Reviews,
2023
Northern Arizona University
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 Both Sides Of The Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis, Theological Imagination,
And Everyday Discipleship,
2023
John Brown University
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 Reading C. S. Lewis: A Commentary,
2023
Scottsdale Presbyterian Church
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 Bringing Narnia Home: Lessons From The Other Side Of The Wardrobe,
2023
Florida State University
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,
2023
George Fox University
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,
2023
Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia
“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,
2023
Archibald Library at Briercrest College and Seminary
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,
2023
Michigan State University
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,
2023
Signum University
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 Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections From The Chronicles Of Narnia,
2023
Bowling Green State University
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.
