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Review Of The Rhetoric Of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’ Nonfiction Prose, James T. Como Apr 2023

Review Of The Rhetoric Of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’ Nonfiction Prose, James T. Como

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Gary L. Tandy, The Rhetoric of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’ Nonfiction Prose (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009). 135 pages. $39.95. ISBN: 9780873389730.


Review Of The Inklings Of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, And Their Friends, Grayson Carter Apr 2023

Review Of The Inklings Of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, And Their Friends, Grayson Carter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Harry Lee Poe [text] and James Ray Veneman [photography], The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Their Friends (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009). 176 pages. $24.99. ISBN: 9780310285038.


Review Of Why I Believe In Narnia: 33 Reviews & Essays On The Life & Works Of C. S. Lewis, James P. Helfers Apr 2023

Review Of Why I Believe In Narnia: 33 Reviews & Essays On The Life & Works Of C. S. Lewis, James P. Helfers

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of James Como, Why I Believe in Narnia: 33 Reviews & Essays on the Life & Works of C. S. Lewis (Wayne, PA: Zossima Press, 2008). 288 pages. $15.99. ISBN: 9780972322188.


Review Of C. S. Lewis: Views From Wake Forest. Essays On C. S. Lewis By Walter Hooper, James Como, And Many Others, David G. Clark Apr 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis: Views From Wake Forest. Essays On C. S. Lewis By Walter Hooper, James Como, And Many Others, David G. Clark

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Michael Travers (ed.), C. S. Lewis: Views from Wake Forest. Essays on C. S. Lewis by Walter Hooper, James Como, and many others (Wayne, PA: Zossima Press, 2008). 288 pages. $23.00. ISBN: 9780972322157.


The Screwtape Letters: The Play, José Maria J. Yulo Apr 2023

The Screwtape Letters: The Play, José Maria J. Yulo

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Staring Max McLean and Karen Wight. Adapted for the stage by Max McLean and Jeff Fiske. Produced by the Fellowship for the Performing Arts, Morristown, New Jersey. Performed at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California, on October 1, 2009.


Interview With Walter Hooper, Mark Neal Apr 2023

Interview With Walter Hooper, Mark Neal

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Interview with Walter Hooper


Review Essay: C. S. Lewis And The Search For Rational Religion, Victor Reppert Apr 2023

Review Essay: C. S. Lewis And The Search For Rational Religion, Victor Reppert

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of John Beversluis, C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. Revised and Updated (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007). 363 pages. $21.98. ISBN: 9781591025313.


Hints, Scott Schuleit Apr 2023

Hints, Scott Schuleit

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Review Essay: C. S. Lewis On The Final Frontier: Science And The Supernatural In The Space Trilogy, Sørina Higgins Apr 2023

Review Essay: C. S. Lewis On The Final Frontier: Science And The Supernatural In The Space Trilogy, Sørina Higgins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Sanford Schwartz, C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). 256 pages. $27.95. ISBN: 9780195374728.


C.S. Lewis' Aesthetics, Adam Barkman Apr 2023

C.S. Lewis' Aesthetics, Adam Barkman

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

While some might be tempted to think that C. S. Lewis wrote more on aesthetic themes than on anything else they would be mistaken. For aesthetics has to do with broad, theoretical questions concerning beauty and art, while Lewis’ writings on literary history, literary criticism, and, to a lesser degree, literary theory tend to be more specific. In addition, although people might point to Lewis’ vast outpourings on myth as evidence of his intense interest in aesthetics, they would only be partly correct. As this author has argued elsewhere,1 even though myth touches beauty and can indeed be made into …


The Lore Of Wood And Stone: Magic In The Chronicles Of Narnia And The Lord Of The Rings, Louis Markos Apr 2023

The Lore Of Wood And Stone: Magic In The Chronicles Of Narnia And The Lord Of The Rings, Louis Markos

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Lewis and Tolkien were apologists for magic in an age where the lore of wood and stone had all but been crushed between two opposing forces: secular technologies that seek to conquer nature and force it to serve the whims of man, and Christian churches that see in magic only the evil sorcery of Simon Magus and the Witch of Endor. In The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings, modern readers are presented with a different incantation: a magic that shatters the anti-humanistic side of technology while affirming the deep and abiding creativity of the Triune God.


Why Father Christmas Appears In Narnia, P. H. Brazier Apr 2023

Why Father Christmas Appears In Narnia, P. H. Brazier

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

"Though Lewis did not explain the presence of Father Christmas in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, given his methodology of “supposal” it is reasonable to formulate an explanation in these terms, rather than seeking allegorical coincidences; clearly, in the context of the internal coherence within the story, this explanation makes a certain sense. Father Christmas’ presence in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe may at first generate confusion and skepticism from those who fail to see that he is a “gift-bearer” sent by Aslan. In Platonic terms, however, he is ultimately a gift-bearer sent by God, Aslan’s …


What C.S. Lewis Really Did To "Cupid And Psyche", Charles Huttar Apr 2023

What C.S. Lewis Really Did To "Cupid And Psyche", Charles Huttar

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

The story of Lewis's engagement, starting at age 18, with Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche.


De Desciptione Temporum: Revisiting C. S. Lewis' Inaugural Lecture, Jean Bethge Elshtain Apr 2023

De Desciptione Temporum: Revisiting C. S. Lewis' Inaugural Lecture, Jean Bethge Elshtain

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A discussion of Lewis's lecture giving a "description of the times," published in C. S. Lewis, They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (London, 1962). Excerpt: "The third and no doubt most salient point for our contemporary consideration is that the “christening of Europe,” deplored by some (like Gibbon, the “humanistic unbeliever”), seemed a unique, irreversible event. “But we have seen the opposite process,” Lewis writes. To be sure, “the un-christening of Europe in our time is not quite complete; neither was her christening in the Dark Ages,” but it proceeds apace. Consequently, while our “ancestors divided history into …


From Vocal Agnostic To Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis And C.E.M. Joad, Joel Heck Apr 2023

From Vocal Agnostic To Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis And C.E.M. Joad, Joel Heck

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

After a brief consideration of Joad’s life and career this essay will examine the events that led to his return to the Christian faith, and the extent of Lewis’ influence on it. As we will see, Joad and Lewis’ interest in philosophy and the world of ideas, their reading of one another’s work and the mutual respect that emerged out of that effort, their published debate over the issue of theodicy in 1941, their lively debate over the merits of Christianity at the Socratic Club in 1944, and their exchange over the troubling issue of animal pain in 1950, comprise …


Back Matter (Volume 2, Issue 1), Grayson Carter Apr 2023

Back Matter (Volume 2, Issue 1), Grayson Carter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Exhibition, Bruce R. Johnson Apr 2023

The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Exhibition, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


The World's Last Night, D. S. Martin Apr 2023

The World's Last Night, D. S. Martin

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


The Great Divorce, D. S. Martin Apr 2023

The Great Divorce, D. S. Martin

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


A Pretty Good War Movie, Robert K. Johnston Apr 2023

A Pretty Good War Movie, Robert K. Johnston

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Prince Caspian (2008)


Review Of The Personal Heresy: A Controversy, Bruce R. Johnson Apr 2023

Review Of The Personal Heresy: A Controversy, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of The Personal Heresy: A Controversy. By C. S. Lewis and E. M. W. Tillyard. Edited by Joel Heck, with an Introduction by Bruce L. Edwards. Austin, Tex.: Concordia University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-8818481-0-3. Pp. xix + 129. $19.95


Review Of Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View Of God, Mark J. Hamilton Apr 2023

Review Of Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View Of God, Mark J. Hamilton

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God. By Peter J. Schakel. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2008. ISBN: 0830834923. Pp. 208. $16.00.


Review Essay: Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens In The Imagination Of C. S. Lewis (Higgins), Sørina Higgins Apr 2023

Review Essay: Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens In The Imagination Of C. S. Lewis (Higgins), Sørina Higgins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis. By Michael Ward. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978- 0-19-53138701. Pp. xii + 347. $29.95


Review Essay: Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens In The Imagination Of C. S. Lewis (Connell), Charles W. Connell Apr 2023

Review Essay: Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens In The Imagination Of C. S. Lewis (Connell), Charles W. Connell

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis. By Michael Ward. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978- 0-19-53138701. Pp. xii + 347. $29.95.


Beyond Personality: Recollections Of C.S. Lewis, Grayson Carter Apr 2023

Beyond Personality: Recollections Of C.S. Lewis, Grayson Carter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

On December 14, 1988 Beyond Personality: Recollections of C. S. Lewis was broadcast in Britain over BBC Radio Four. Unlike many other works of reminiscences of C. S. Lewis, the comments that appear therein are not always complimentary (or uncritical) of their subject. In part, this reflects Lewis’ somewhat mixed reputation in England, where academic theologians often remain skeptical of his attempts to communicate religious truth and where literary critics often view his opinions on poetry and literature as anachronistic. In part, this may also reflect the nature of a radio program such as this, in which lengthy commentary is …


C.S. Lewis: Literary Criticism And Critical Theory A Primary And Secondary Bibliography, James P. Helfers Apr 2023

C.S. Lewis: Literary Criticism And Critical Theory A Primary And Secondary Bibliography, James P. Helfers

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Excerpt: "A major problem with compiling a focused bibliography of texts related to C. S. Lewis’ work as a literary critic and critical theorist is that critical theory as a concept is a relatively recent invention. One can think of critical theory as the explicit consideration of the ontological and epistemological status of objects of literary study, and as the philosophical consideration of various aspects of the interpretation of texts (hermeneutics). Although a number of philosophical writings since the Greek Classical Period have significance for critical theory, the idea that an interpretive approach to texts can be considered philosophically probably …


Toward A Narnian Valuation Of Nature: Participatory Ontology, Jeff Sellars Apr 2023

Toward A Narnian Valuation Of Nature: Participatory Ontology, Jeff Sellars

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Lewis’ appreciation of nature begs the question: from where does the natural world gain its purpose and meaning? Lewis’ valuation of nature can be understood perhaps best through participatory ontology: the immanent world is valued and saved only through the participation of the divine; the lower life is brought up into the higher life. This view can be seen very openly and unmistakably throughout The Chronicles of Narnia, where the natural Narnian world of plants, animals, trees, and creatures of all kinds are celebrated, and some are eventually included in the New Narnia.


Diversity In Times Of Adversity: Sounding A Horn In Narnia, D. G. Kehl Apr 2023

Diversity In Times Of Adversity: Sounding A Horn In Narnia, D. G. Kehl

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Why, one might ask, does Lewis go to such great lengths to specify twelve different varieties of animals—“all you variety of creatures”—if not to stress diversity? In Letters to Malcolm Lewis wrote: “If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them.”


Front Matter (Volume 2, Issue 1), Grayson Carter Apr 2023

Front Matter (Volume 2, Issue 1), Grayson Carter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.


Backmatter (Volume 1, Issue 1), Grayson Carter Apr 2023

Backmatter (Volume 1, Issue 1), Grayson Carter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.