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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) |
new »» Politics
in C. S. Lewis’s Collected Letters «« new 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.” |
The instruction for Christians sent out among the
wolves “A
tour de force of good sense … Christians should indeed take note.” |
C. S. Lewis in The Spectator, 1920-1970 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.” |
...while C. S. Lewis
was “transmitting Christianity”? “Nothing
which was not in the teachers can flow from them into the pupils” |
A
Summary of The Abolition of Man Followed by a
Brief Summary |
Ayn Rand on The
Abolition of Man her private (yet
published) marginalia “The
‘rational’ to him is blind faith! ... The abysmal scum!” |
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” |
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” |
Alastair Fowler on C. S. Lewis Yale Review, October 2003 “Of course he
was bookish; hang it, he tutored in literature” |
A moral
philosopher’s opinion and reminiscences of CSL, as given in a private
correspondence “Like good
wine, he improves with time” |
What Lewis really did to Miracles: A scrutiny and presentation of primary sources A win-win game after
all? |
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 ...” |
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” |
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 |
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 |
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, |
“The intellectual problem raised by suffering” Assessing the
philosophical weight of Lewis’s first foray into Christian apologetics How
Lewis was a Christian thinker |
C.
S. Lewis and the “Argument from Desire” “It is a remarkable fact
that no canonical writer has ever used Nature to prove God.” |
C. S. Lewis, St Jerome, and the Biblical Creation Story The likely background of
a recurrent misattribution Long live (in)accuracy |
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; |
C. S. Lewis and Baron
von Hügel Echoes from a forgotten
thinker “... the soul, qua religious, has no interest in just simple unending existence
…” |
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) * |
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.” |
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” |
A valuable addition to Studies in Words Logan Pearsall Smith’s essay “Four Romantic Words” (1925) |
CSL’s prizemanship
reveals a cultural and scientific cornucopia |
Correction slip for The “Great
War” of Owen Barfield and C. S. Lewis (2015) |
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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present Bibliografie van Nederlandse Lewis-vertalingen,
1947 tot heden |
Books on View | Boeken in beeld covers
of Dutch C. S. Lewis translations, 1947-2019 omslagen van Nederlandse Lewisvertalingen,
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Levensloop van C. S. Lewis in jaartallen |
Notities bij mijn zoveelste
herlezing van De afschaffing van de
mens |
C. S. Lewis en Reijer
Hooykaas over Francis Bacon en de Wetenschappelijke Revolutie |
Ken je
Klassieken: C. S. Lewis Gastcollege voor de Christelijke Hogeschool Ede, 16 januari 2017 |
Een Lewisiaans commentaar op God bewijzen (2013) van Stefan Paas en Rik Peels |
in mijn EIGEN Lewis-vertalingen |
De Socratic Club, toen – en nu? |
Bij de verschijning van
twee Lewis-vertalingen, 1
maart 2007 |
Lewis, Tolkien en de
Gollancz-connectie “Chemie” tussen alfa’s en bèta’s |
A. N. Wilson over C. S. Lewis |
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 |
Lewis als
“conservatieve denker” blog voor www.protestant.nl,
augustus 2010 |
recensie van |
recensie van –– over C. S. Lewis en Josef Pieper |
Een bespreking van zijn
sciencefiction-trilogie |
Samenvatting van De afschaffing van de mens (The
Abolition of Man, 1943) |
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