Hood professor co-edits book of essays on C.S. Lewis and his contemporaries
Hood professor co-edits book of essays on C.S. Lewis and his contemporaries
By Lauren LaRocca
News-Post Staff
August 20, 2011
C.S. Lewis used imaginative stories to reach people. Arguably the most well-known contemporary Christian writer, his method apparently worked.
Many of his fiction works -- among them "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "The Screwtape Letters" -- conveyed Christianity to adults and children by giving them something concrete with which to relate, rather than relying solely on abstract theological thought, though still arriving at the same universal truths.
His contemporaries used similar processes, embracing the world -- and body -- rather than repudiating it as being separate from spiritual experience. Referred to as the Inklings, this group of writers included such notables as J.R.R. Tolkien.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Lauren LaRocca
News-Post Staff
August 20, 2011
C.S. Lewis used imaginative stories to reach people. Arguably the most well-known contemporary Christian writer, his method apparently worked.
Many of his fiction works -- among them "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "The Screwtape Letters" -- conveyed Christianity to adults and children by giving them something concrete with which to relate, rather than relying solely on abstract theological thought, though still arriving at the same universal truths.
His contemporaries used similar processes, embracing the world -- and body -- rather than repudiating it as being separate from spiritual experience. Referred to as the Inklings, this group of writers included such notables as J.R.R. Tolkien.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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