The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis
by Robert MacSwain (Editor), Michael Ward (Editor)
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A distinguished academic, influential Christian apologist, and best-selling author of children's literature, C. S. Lewis is a controversial and enigmatic figure who continues to fascinate, fifty years after his death. This Companion is a comprehensive single-volume study written by an international team of scholars to survey Lewis's career as a literary historian, popular theologian, and creative writer. Twenty-one expert voices from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, show more Princeton University, and Wheaton College, among many other places of learning, analyze Lewis's work from theological, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Some chapters consider his professional contribution to fields such as critical theory and intellectual history, while others assess his views on issues including moral knowledge, gender, prayer, war, love, suffering, and Scripture. The final chapters investigate his work as a writer of fiction and poetry. Original in its approach and unique in its scope, this Companion shows that C. S. Lewis was much more than merely the man behind Narnia. show lessTags
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Robert MacSwain is Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics at The School of Theology of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. He has co-edited Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein (SCM Press, 2004), The Truth-Seeking Heart: Austin Farrer and His Writing (Canterbury Press, 2006) The Cambridge show more Companion to C.S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Response to the Work of David Brown (Oxford University Press, 2012). He received his doctorate from the University of St Andrews. show less
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