Archives: March 2008
The Devil and Mr. Lewis
March 26th, 2008
The September 8, 1947 cover of Time Magazine improbably depicts the demure C. S. Lewis accompanied by a fiercely impish devil poised on his left shoulder, a caricature of his infamous fictional protagonist, Screwtape, AKA, Senior Tempter of Hell. You can search Time’s cover stories 35 weeks forward and backwards and never see another religious [...]
Jack's "Personal Heresy": The Politics of Poetics
March 20th, 2008
The Personal Heresy is another important work in Lewis’s canon that few people outside of literary studies will have noticed, but one whose impact in accounting for Lewis’s journey of faith and the role of “objective value” in his thinking cannot be underestimated. “The Personal Heresy” refers both to (1) a menacing concept C. S. [...]
"Fine Nets and Stratagems": A Review of Planet Narnia
March 12th, 2008
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward (Oxford University Press, 2008) A review by Megan J. Robinson “In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too [...]
C. S. Lewis on Language
March 8th, 2008
How did C. S. Lewis see language? We possess the gift of speech from a Creator-God one of whose own defining attributes is that He himself speaks, and that his speech is itself an expression of creative power. Indeed, just as the Biblical God speaks the universe into being, Aslan, the Creator King in Lewis’s [...]
