The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis

by Macswain, Robert (Editor); Ward, Michael (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780521711142
• ISBN10: 0521711142
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 the first 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 Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, and Wheaton, 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xvii
C.S. Lewis: chronology	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Scholar
Literary critic	p. 15
Literary theorist	p. 29
Intellectual historian	p. 43
Classicist	p. 58
Thinker
On scripture	p. 75
On theology	p. 89
On naturalism	p. 105
On moral knowledge	p. 119
On discernment	p. 132
On love	p. 146
On gender	p. 160
On power	p. 174
On violence	p. 189
On suffering	p. 203
Writer
The Pilgrim's Regress and Surprised by Joy	p. 223
The Ransom Trilogy	p. 237
The Great Divorce	p. 251
The Chronicles of Narnia	p. 265
Till We Have Faces	p. 281
Poet	p. 294
Bibliography	p. 311
Index	p. 319
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