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Review Of Speaking Of Jack: A C. S. Lewis Discussion Guide, Emily E. Redman

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Review of: Will Vaus, Speaking of Jack: A C. S. Lewis Discussion Guide (Hamden, CT: 2011). 278 pages. $15.00. ISBN: 9781936294121.

Review Of The Narnia Code (Film), Robert K. Johnson

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Review of: Norman Stone, The Narnia Code (DVD). Entertainment One, 2009. James Como (narrator) and Michael Ward (as himself).

Review Of Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, And Metamorphoses In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Cory Lowell Grewell

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Review of: Salwa Khoddam, Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of Narnia (Hamden, CT, 2011). xiii + 259 pages. $16.99. ISBN: 9781936294114.

Review Of Reasoning Beyond Reason: Imagination As A Theological Source In The Work Of C. S. Lewis, Nikolay Epplée

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Review of: J. T. Sellars, Reasoning Beyond Reason: Imagination as a Theological Source in the Work of C. S. Lewis (Eugene, 2011). 256 pages. $29.00. ISBN: 9781608995035.

Review Of C. S. Lewis And Friends: Faith And The Power Of Imagination, David Robinson

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Review of: David Hein and Edward Henderson, eds., C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination (London, 2011). 159 pages. $18.00. ISBN: 9780281062249.

Review Of Toward The Gleam, Christine A. Colón

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Review of: T. M. Doran, Toward the Gleam (San Francisco, 2011). 467 pages, $24.95. ISBN: 9781586176334.

Review Of Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth And Religion In C. S. Lewis’S Chronicles, Joe R. Christopher

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Review of Shauna Caughey, ed., Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles (Dallas, 2005). 310 pages. $14.95. ISBN: 9781932100636.

Review Of Through A Glass Darkly: Suffering, The Sacred, And The Sublime In Literature And Theory, David Llewellyn Dodds

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Review of: Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann, eds., Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory (Waterloo, ON, 2010), xxviii + 450 pages. Paperback: $42.95; ISBN: 9781554583058. Hardcover: $85.00; ISBN: 9781554581849

Review Of Inside The Voyage Of The ‘Dawn Treader’: A Guide To Exploring The Journey Beyond Narnia, Charles Franklyn Beach

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Review of Devin Brown, Inside The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’: A Guide to Exploring the Journey Beyond Narnia (Grand Rapids, 2010). 249 pages. $12.99. ISBN: 9780801071652.

Review Of C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement, Suzanne Bray

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Review of: Colin Manlove. C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement (Cheshire, CT, 2010). 256 pages. $14.52. ISBN: 9781936294008

Review Imagining Mars: A Literary History, Sanford Schwartz

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Review of Robert Crossley, Imagining Mars: A Literary History (Middletown, CT:, 2011). xx + 353 pages. $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-8195–6927–1

Review Of The Magical World Of The Inklings, Matthew Dickerson

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Review of Gareth Knight, The Magical World of the Inklings (Cheltenham, 2010). $24.99. 304 pages. ISBN: 9781908011015 New and expanded edition, first published in 1990

Review Of C. S. Lewis: Latter-Day Truths In Narnia, Stephen Yandall

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Review of Marianna Richardson and Christine Thackeray, C. S. Lewis: Latter-Day Truths in Narnia (Springville, UT, 2008). x + 236 pages. $15.99. ISBN: 9781599551937

Review Of Toward Other Worlds: Perspectives On John Milton, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, And Others, William Gentrup

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William Gentrup: Review of: Michael R. Collings, Toward Other Worlds: Perspectives on John Milton, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, and Others (Rockville, MD, 2010). 309 pages. $16.99. ISBN: 9781434457929.; .; . .; Suzanne Bray: .; David Llewellyn Dodds: .;

Review Of The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith And The Discipleship Of The Mind, P. H. Brazier

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Review of Alister McGrath, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind (Downers Grove, 2010). 210 pages. $22.00. ISBN: 9780830838431

Review Of Second Friends: C. S. Lewis And Ronald Knox In Conversation, Malcolm Guite

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Review of: Milton T. Walsh, Second Friends: C. S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation (San Francisco, 2008). 360 pages. $16.95. ISBN: 9781586172404.

Review Of Owen Barfield On C. S. Lewis, Sørina Higgins

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Review of: Owen Barfield; edited by G. B. Tennyson and Jane Hipolito. Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis (Oxford, 2011). xxi +157 pages. $19.99. ISBN: 9780955958298

Review Of Writing God And The Self: Samuel Beckett And C. S. Lewis, Monika Hilder

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Review of: Sharon Jebb, Writing God and the Self: Samuel Beckett and C. S. Lewis (Eugene, 2011). 292 pages. $32.00. ISBN: 9781608997381

Review Of C. S. Lewis: A Map Of His Worlds, Charles A. Huttar

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Review of: Margaret Patterson Hannay, C. S. Lewis: A Map of His Worlds (Eugene, 2009). xiv (plus one inserted leaf, unpaginated) + 299 pages. $35.00. ISBN: 9781606084106

Review Of Companionship In Grief: Love And Loss In The Memoirs Of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, And Calvin Trillin, Don W. King

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Don W. King: Review of: Jeffrey Berman, Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin

Who Will Deliver Me From This Body Of Death, Tania Runyan

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Little End Room, Tony Dawson

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Descent, Malcolm Guite

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Mary Magdalene, Malcolm Guite

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Review Essay: Lewis’S Lost Aeneid: Arms And The Exile, Nikolay Epplée, B. N. Wolfe, Louis Markos

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An extended review of C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile, ed. by A. T. Reyes (New Haven, 2011). xxiii + 184 pages. $27.50. ISBN:: 9780300167177

Imagine, Malcolm Guite

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Review Essay: C. S. Lewis And The Church. Essays In Honor Of Walter Hooper, Grayson Carter

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An extended review of Judith Wolfe and Brendan N. Wolfe, eds., C. S. Lewis and the Church. Essays in Honor of Walter Hooper (London, 2001). xi + 193 pages. $110.00. ISBN: 9780567047366

"There Is No Emperor": Merlin And The Ideal State In That Hideous Strength, L. S.B. Maccoull

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C. S. Lewis’ Merlin has been brought forward from the sixth century. In the world he knew, though there was no longer a Roman Emperor in the West, there certainly was an Emperor reigning in Constantinople who could be called upon for aid. A closer look at Lewis’ depiction of Byzantium reveals what role the positive qualities he attributed to the city played in the development of his own views regarding the nature of the realm (or world) we should strive to realize here on earth.

The Stylistic Achievement Of Mere Christianity, Gary L. Tandy

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This essay will not attempt to explain the cultural, sociological, and theological reasons for the ongoing relevance of Lewis’s Mere Christianity. It will, however, look closely at several aspects of the work in order to assess its rhetorical and literary achievement. It will also suggest that, while Lewis’ understanding of Christian doctrine and his mastery of logical argument are important (and have received the bulk of critical attention), the success of Mere Christianity has more to do with the style through which the author communicated its content. Specifically, Lewis’ rhetorical or apologetic theory led him to focus on the …

"A Dreadful Thing": C.S. Lewis And The Experinces Of War, Timothy J. Demy

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From a Christian perspective, war entails the death and killing of people who are all created in the image of God and therefore have inherent dignity and incalculable worth. And yet, even after experiencing war at firsthand, C. S. Lewis believed that war is sometimes justifiable and necessary.

Like others of his generation, Lewis was deeply affected by the experience of war. He lived through the First and Second World Wars, serving as an officer on the Western Front between November 1917 and April 1918. His brother Warren (“Warnie”) was a career officer serving in the British army in both …