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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Back in college I had the occasion to read several of Lewis' books. My senior year I even took an independent study that focused on three of his works leading to a paper that attempted to synthesize The Problem of Pain, Miracles and A Grief Observed.
I wish I could ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
Now we are getting somewhere. Lewis' fifth published work is the first novel in his Space Trilogy. Released in 1938 readers would have to wait 6 and 8 years respectively for the final two installments.
In the book, Ransom is on a walking tour through the English landscape. ...
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Reading through C.S. Lewis chronologically immediately brings some obvious truths to the fore: not all of his works were meant to be read by a general audience. Walter Hooper in his definitive account of the life and works of Lewis does not even include some of these as individual ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
After his two poem's Lewis would not have another work published until after his conversion.
The Pilgrim's Regress would make the literary debut of Lewis as Christian writer and would display his greatest style of writing: allegory.
Written as his own re-visioning of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress this would would follow the protagonist, ...
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
The first two published works of C.S. Lewis were poems. Spirits in Bondage was published in 1919 when Lewis was 21 years old. Dymer followed 7 years later.
These are the only two works of his before his conversion so they offer somewhat of a different glimpse of the ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
I had originally intended for this summer to be an exercise in reading fiction. Yet the further I went into the process the more I began to long for something a little more specific.
I view life and approach things through series. I read, watch TV and movies, preach ...
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