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Review Of A Well Of Wonder: Essays On C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, And The Inklings, Corey Latta May 2023

Review Of A Well Of Wonder: Essays On C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, And The Inklings, Corey Latta

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of Clyde S. Kilby, A Well of Wonder: Essays on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Inklings, ed. by Loren Wilkinson and Keith Call (Brewster, Massachusetts: Paraclete Press, 2016). vii + 348 pages, including “A Tribute to Clyde S. Kilby.” $28.99. ISBN 9781612618623.


Review Of Jack Lewis And His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study Of Instructive Affinities, John Stanifer May 2023

Review Of Jack Lewis And His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study Of Instructive Affinities, John Stanifer

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of D. G. Kehl, Jack Lewis and His American Cousin, Nat Hawthorne: A Study of Instructive Affinities (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2013). ix + 247 pages. $29.00. ISBN 9781610978361.


Review Of High Towers And Strong Places: A Political History Of Middle- Earth, Dominic J. Nardi May 2023

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 C. S. Lewis On Politics And The Natural Law, Crystal Hurd May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis On Politics And The Natural Law, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson, C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law (New York, NY: Cambridge, 2016). ix+160 pages. $26.99. ISBN 9781107518971.


Review Of The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien And Their Circle, Matthew Carey Jordan May 2023

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.


Polar Vortex, Travis Scholl May 2023

Polar Vortex, Travis Scholl

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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A More Medieval Vision Of God, Louis Markos May 2023

A More Medieval Vision Of God, Louis Markos

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of Chris R. Armstrong, Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians: Finding Authentic Faith in a Forgotten Age with C. S. Lewis (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos, 2016). 272 pages. $19.99. ISBN 9781587433788.


A Plea For Reasonable Discourse About Lewis’S Views On Evolution, Charles A. Huttar May 2023

A Plea For Reasonable Discourse About Lewis’S Views On Evolution, Charles A. Huttar

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of Jerry Bergman, C. S. Lewis: Anti-Darwinist: A Careful Examination of the Develop- ment of His Views on Darwinism (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2016). xxiii + 136 pages. $21.00. ISBN 9781532607738.


C. S. Lewis On Atheism, Joel D. Heck May 2023

C. S. Lewis On Atheism, Joel D. Heck

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Lewis had a lot to say about atheists and atheism, mentioning the topic at least seventy-eight times in at least thirty books and essays. Having been an atheist himself, he understood Christianity from—as he put it—the outside. He held many of the same positions that atheists did in the 1910s and 1920s and for many of the same reasons that still influence people today. Although he did not compose any sort of systematic description, definition, or formal reaction to atheism, we can glean a great deal from his writings. Perhaps most important of all, Lewis knew quite a few atheists …


“Evil Enchantment” Versus Platonic Vision: Dante, Lewis, And The Weight Of Glory, Jason Baxter May 2023

“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, …


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 …


Soothers, Everett Wall May 2023

Soothers, Everett Wall

LMU Theses and Dissertations

When a meticulous chef, who can't eat anything without throwing it up, discovers the cure for his ailment in a recalled antacid from the 1970s, he solicits the help of his in-house taster to hunt down more of the tablets and in the process discovers that she was the cure all along.


There Will Be A Tomorrow, Cameron Webb May 2023

There Will Be A Tomorrow, Cameron Webb

LMU Theses and Dissertations

After her young daughter is killed in the aftermath of an apocalypse, a mother travels back in time to save her by stopping the apocalypse from ever happening.


An Economic History Of Ellis County, Kansas, Danielle Knoll, Alison Helget, Matthew Lamunyon, Colton Wagner, Daniel Robert Mcclure May 2023

An Economic History Of Ellis County, Kansas, Danielle Knoll, Alison Helget, Matthew Lamunyon, Colton Wagner, Daniel Robert Mcclure

Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research

Like many American rural communities in the second decade of the twenty-first century, Ellis County faces tough decisions regarding economic development, population growth, and sustainable strategies. This paper examines the history of the region since the early twentieth century, tracing the evolution of various industries—from oil to farming—and the different ways the community responded to the area and nation’s economic shifts. This “big picture” view of Ellis County operates as a starting point for strategizing paths forward for area residents.


The “Trans-Historical Community Of Women” And The Paintings Of Artemisia Gentileschi, Grace T. O. Ray May 2023

The “Trans-Historical Community Of Women” And The Paintings Of Artemisia Gentileschi, Grace T. O. Ray

The Confluence

Though the term feminism did not yet exist, Artemisia Gentileschi’s embrace of the vital force of feminine strength is a distinctive component to her paintings. The woman painter’s life and art were affected by her sex, in a time when women were not only considered property but had to deal with the repercussions of an oppressive patriarchal society. From her youth onwards, Gentileschi witnessed women unjustly convicted and punished for crimes that had men committed, the law would have allowed them to walk free. Sadly, Artemisia was later privy to the misogynistic laws herself with the famous rape trial. It …


Beyond Blackface: Minstrel Shows In Modern Day America, Cheyenne Burns May 2023

Beyond Blackface: Minstrel Shows In Modern Day America, Cheyenne Burns

The Confluence

This essay explores the history of Blackface in America and how not addressing or treating Blackface as a taboo has allowed for microaggressions within the media to continue.


Integrating Art And Design With Environmental Science, Laura D. Hinson May 2023

Integrating Art And Design With Environmental Science, Laura D. Hinson

The Confluence

This article demonstrates how combining art and design and environmental sciences would benefit both fields by analyzing how utilizing art and design in environmental sciences can help enhance aspects of the teaching process and environmental studies, specifically those dealing with climatology and pollution. Additionally, by taking an ecocritical approach to analyzing art and its creation, this article will detail how artists can become more conscious of the impacts creating certain types of art has on the environment while also noting environmental changes documented through art.


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.