Starts a bit slow, but Alan Jacobs' biography ends up being the best work I've read on C S Lewis's life. Jacobs focuses on the development and expression of Lewis's thinking, especially his imagination, and doesn't waste time on ground that's been covered so exhaustively already, i.e. his odd household arrangements, the Inklings, etc. The Narnian is a literary/theological biography of C.S. Lewis. Although it covers the basic facts of Lewis' life as competently as any other biography, the real strength of Jacobs' work lies in the fascinating discussions of Lewis' thought processes and religious/literary bltadwin.ru by: The Year of Our Lord Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. Alan Jacobs. out of 5 stars. Hardcover. $ $ Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. bltadwin.rus:
Christian life, prayer, faith, compassion, guilt, and forgiveness. A Mind Awake includes C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity, Alister McGrath's Mere Apologetics seeks to equip readers to engage gracefully and intelligently with the imagination. This highly accessible, easy-to-read. He was, according to Alan Jacobs, a Narnian before Narnia was created. With The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis, Jacobs has written what he terms "almost a biography." A. Image and Imagination-C. S. Lewis New collection of literary-critical essays and reviews of C. S. Lewis, including previously unpublished and long-unavailable works. C.S. Lewis, Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor-Lionel Adey Examines the life of the eminent British writer and scholar, and suggests that his.
The Dueling Machine is a novel by Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis, first published in A professor ”cures” aggression by inventing a dueling machine--a cyberspace place for enemies to meet and fight to the death. But nobody is supposed to really die. Most of Lewis’s major ideas are also developed in his fiction. Alan Jacobs, in his biography of Lewis, argues that every significant theme in Lewis’s philosophical or apologetic writing is also expressed in The Chronicles of Narnia. This parallel could be illustrated in other writings. C. S. Lewis understood imagination in a clear, profound way. His arguably most famous books, The Chronicles of Narnia, abound in the imaginative - Lewis created new wondrous creatures, drew upon myths and wove in Christian allegory, all while entertaining children and adults alike.
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