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It is his glory that he did not move with the times; it is his reward
that he now remains when those times, as all times do, have moved away. – C. S. Lewis on St Athanasius, “On the reading of old books” (1944) |
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Mark A.
Noll on C. S. Lewis in
America The
(re)view from Europe, 2024 A lament for the Center |
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Politics in C. S. Lewis’s Collected
Letters A
2024 sequel to “C. S. Lewis in Times of Trump” “The devil about trying
to write satire now-a-days is that reality constantly outstrips you.” |
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The instruction for Christians sent out among the
wolves “A
tour de force of good sense … Christians should indeed take note.” |
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2025 update »» C. S. Lewis in The Spectator, 1920-1970 «« update 2025 How
he wrote and was written about “We must get rid of our arrogant
assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose.” |
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...while C. S. Lewis
was “transmitting Christianity”? “Nothing
which was not in the teachers can flow from them into the pupils” |
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A
Summary of The Abolition of Man Followed by a
Brief Summary |
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Ayn Rand on The
Abolition of Man her private (yet
published) marginalia “The
‘rational’ to him is blind faith! ... The abysmal scum!” |
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George Orwell
on That Hideous Strength Review
in Manchester Evening News, 16 August
1945 “We are
within sight of the time when such dreams will be realisable” |
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J. B. S. Haldane on C. S. Lewis As
Lewis has completed his science fiction trilogy, a great scientist hits back “His arguments
seem to me to include many which definitely muddy the stream of human thought” |
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Alastair Fowler on C. S. Lewis Yale Review, October 2003 “Of course he
was bookish; hang it, he tutored in literature” |
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A moral
philosopher’s opinion and reminiscences of CSL, as given in a private
correspondence “Like good
wine, he improves with time” |
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What Lewis really did to Miracles: A scrutiny and presentation of primary sources A win-win game after
all? |
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Where
Lewis found the phrase “And now Sir,
I am sorry that you are not content with meer Christianity, and to be a Member of the Catholick Church ...” |
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The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy A detailed summary of Étienne Gilson’s Gifford
Lectures 1931 How
Christianity “provided philosophers with more rational truth than they found
in philosophy” |
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C. S. Lewis’s Shorter Writings A survey of his shorter prose
writings as published in collected editions (1939-2013); followed
by alphabetical & chronological listings |
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An
integrated Table of Contents for C. S. Lewis’s Collected Letters 3,208
letters in three volumes, listed by date and by recipient’s name |
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A History of C. S. Lewis’s Collected Shorter Writings,
1939-2000 With
a 2015 postscript Why Lewis’s
shorter writings are still waiting the definitive, |
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“The intellectual problem raised by suffering” Assessing the
philosophical weight of Lewis’s first foray into Christian apologetics How
Lewis was a Christian thinker |
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C.
S. Lewis and the “Argument from Desire” “It is a remarkable fact
that no canonical writer has ever used Nature to prove God.” |
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C. S. Lewis, St Jerome, and the Biblical Creation Story The likely background of
a recurrent misattribution Long live (in)accuracy |
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The Allegory of Love: a detailed summary Lewis’s 1936 masterpiece
on “the liberation of fantasy from its allegorical justification” “What the
romantics learned from Spenser was something different from allegory; |
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C. S. Lewis and Baron
von Hügel Echoes from a forgotten
thinker “... the soul, qua religious, has no interest in just simple unending existence
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Sweetly poisonous in a welcome way: Reflections on
a Definitive Biography On
A. N. Wilson’s biography of C. S. Lewis Wild ideas
about Lewis exposed by and in his biographer * with a Postscript (2009) * |
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Critical Notes on Alister McGrath’s biography of C.
S. Lewis Including
a review essay in Journal of Inklings
Studies, April 2014 “Aslan is not a tame lion,
and we may doubt McGrath has succeeded in taming Lewis.” |
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The Writings of Joy Davidman Lewis (1915-1960) By Paul Leopold. The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis
Society, February 1983 “The
courage so celebrated in her writings appears to have been really hers” |
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A valuable addition to Studies in Words Logan Pearsall Smith’s essay “Four Romantic Words” (1925) |
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CSL’s prizemanship
reveals a cultural and scientific cornucopia |
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Correction slip for The “Great
War” of Owen Barfield and C. S. Lewis (2015) |
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C. S. Lewis in Poets’
Corner: Rowan Williams’s Address Westminster
Abbey, London, 22 November 2013 “Lewis’s interest in
words and what they tell us about humanity, is one |
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C. S. Lewis in Dutch |
C. S. Lewis in
het Nederlands Bibliography of Dutch Lewis translations, 1947 to the
present Bibliografie van Nederlandse Lewis-vertalingen,
1947 tot heden |
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Books on View | Boeken in beeld covers
of Dutch C. S. Lewis translations, 1947-2019 omslagen van Nederlandse Lewisvertalingen,
1947-2019 |
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Levensloop van C. S. Lewis in jaartallen |
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Notities bij mijn zoveelste
herlezing van De afschaffing van de
mens |
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C. S. Lewis en Reijer
Hooykaas over Francis Bacon en de
Wetenschappelijke Revolutie |
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Ken je Klassieken:
C. S. Lewis Gastcollege voor de Christelijke Hogeschool Ede, 16 januari 2017 |
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Een Lewisiaans commentaar op God bewijzen (2013) van Stefan Paas en Rik Peels |
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in mijn EIGEN Lewis-vertalingen |
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De Socratic Club, toen – en nu? |
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Bij de verschijning van
twee Lewis-vertalingen, 1
maart 2007 |
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Lewis, Tolkien en de Gollancz-connectie “Chemie” tussen alfa’s en bèta’s |
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A. N. Wilson over C. S. Lewis |
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Radicale
verlichting of radicale verduistering? Het
hoofdstuk over C. S. Lewis in de bundel Conservatieve
vooruitgang (2010) o.r.v. Thierry Baudet en Michiel Visser |
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Lewis als
“conservatieve denker” blog voor www.protestant.nl,
augustus 2010 |
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recensie van |
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recensie van –– over C. S. Lewis en Josef Pieper |
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Een bespreking van zijn
sciencefiction-trilogie |
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Samenvatting van De afschaffing van de mens (The
Abolition of Man, 1943) |
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