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Mere Christianity And The Moral Argument For The Existence Of God, Christopher A. Shrock May 2023

Mere Christianity And The Moral Argument For The Existence Of God, Christopher A. Shrock

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis’s moral argument for the existence of God from Mere Christianity has been called the “most widely-convincing apologetic argument of the twentieth century.” It is concise and commonsensical. But Lewis’s argument has come under heavy fire in past decades, most notably from John Beversluis and Erik Wielenberg. This article offers an alternative reading on which the moral argument from the opening chapters of Mere Christianity is not only valid but also original and defensible. Unlike other moral arguments, Lewis deals in neither metaethics nor moral pragmatics. So he avoids prickly objections related to Divine Command Theory and accusations …


Paradise Retained: C. S. Lewis On The Nature Of Knowledge, Reality, And Morality In Perelandra, Richard L. W. Clarke May 2023

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.


The Neo-Platonic Christianity Of C. S. Lewis, Richard L. W. Clarke May 2023

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’ Top Ten Influential Books And Authors (Volumes 1 & 2), Lyle W. Dorsett May 2023

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

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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 May 2023

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

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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.


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 May 2023

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, Sarah King May 2023

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, Bruce R. Johnson May 2023

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, David Russell Mosley May 2023

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, Stephen Barber May 2023

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, Suzanne Bray May 2023

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, Charles W. Connell May 2023

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 The Oxford Handbook Of Science Fiction, Dominic J. Nardi Jr. May 2023

Review Of The Oxford Handbook Of Science Fiction, Dominic J. Nardi Jr.

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of Rob Latham, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (Oxford, 2014). xv + 620 pages. $160. ISBN: 9780199838844.


Review Of Both Sides Of The Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, And Everyday Discipleship, Jonathan Himes May 2023

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, Bruce R. Johnson May 2023

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 Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring The History, Meaning, & Relevance Of C. S. Lewis’S Greatest Book (Dvd), Jeff Gissing May 2023

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 Bringing Narnia Home: Lessons From The Other Side Of The Wardrobe, David Mcnaughton May 2023

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.


Or What’S A Heaven For?, Don Russ May 2023

Or What’S A Heaven For?, Don Russ

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


Winter Flowering On Chowning Place, Don Russ May 2023

Winter Flowering On Chowning Place, Don Russ

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


Tintern Abbey, D. S. Martin May 2023

Tintern Abbey, D. S. Martin

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


The Sign Of The Broken Sword 155, D. S. Martin May 2023

The Sign Of The Broken Sword 155, D. S. Martin

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


New Stages In The Study Of Lewis’ Poetry, Charles A. Huttar May 2023

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, Monika B. Hilder May 2023

“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, Jeffrey A. Misener May 2023

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, Thomas Garrett Isham May 2023

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 May 2023

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 May 2023

“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’S Perelandra: Reshaping The Image Of The Cosmos, Sørina Higgins May 2023

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 C. S. Lewis And The Island Of His Birth: The Places, The Stories, And The Inspiration, Crystal Hurd May 2023

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

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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 May 2023

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

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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.