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An Introduction to The Personal Heresy

June 21st, 2008

To be published in August, 2008, as introduction to The Personal Heresy, reprinted by Concordia University Press, ed, Dr. Joel Heck. The Personal Heresy: An Introduction Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Professor of English and Africana Studies Bowling Green State University (Ohio) In The Personal Heresy, we find C. S. Lewis “at work,” so to speak, […]

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"A Cleft in the Walls of the World": A Meditative Review of CSL's Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

June 3rd, 2008

I can easily imagine Lewis listening to this, leaning back in a chair, pipe in hand and a faint smile on his face, saying, “Well, get on then.” Yet I think that Lewis would sympathize with this trepidation, for if merely reading about prayer – let alone praying – causes tremors in the soul, how […]

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Battle Fatigue: A Review of Prince Caspian

May 16th, 2008

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Not A Moment Too Soon: Prince Caspian @ Calvary May 20

May 9th, 2008

I will be at Calvary Assembly, 5025 Glendale Avenue, Toledo, Ohio on Tuesday, May 20, 7PM, to discuss Prince Caspian and the life of C. S. Lewis. Hope to see you there. Copies of my books on Narnia will be available for purchase.

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Countdown to Caspian

May 7th, 2008

Most Lewis readers are aware that the next in the Narnian movie series arrives within nearly a week: Friday, May 16th. (Watch for my review here on that date. And click here to see my former review of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) Meanwhile, the coming of Prince Caspian simultaneously raises expectations as […]

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Lewis's Grand Miracles: Against Naturalism

April 5th, 2008

Miracles (1947) is comprised of seventeen lucid and succinct chapters and two appendices crafted with Lewis’s characteristic care for precision of definition, ample and multiple illustration of key points, and the anticipation and critique of objections from earnest readers. In view of such works as Al Gore’s The Assault on Reason (2007) and Susan Jacoby’s […]

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Jack's "Personal Heresy": The Politics of Poetics

March 20th, 2008

The Personal Heresy is another important work in Lewis’s canon that few people outside of literary studies will have noticed, but one whose impact in accounting for Lewis’s journey of faith and the role of “objective value” in his thinking cannot be underestimated. “The Personal Heresy” refers both to (1) a menacing concept C. S. […]

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"Fine Nets and Stratagems": A Review of Planet Narnia

March 12th, 2008

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward (Oxford University Press, 2008) A review by Megan J. Robinson “In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too […]

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What’s Up with TILL WE HAVE FACES?

February 3rd, 2008

A new friend asked me about resources and perspectives by which he might conduct a small group study of Lewis’s most elusive (and allusive) work, Till We Have Faces. That was a good provocation to explore it here. Dr. Peter Schakel’s earlier book was once the only starting point for reflective conversation, a time when […]

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America’s Bonny Fighter: C. S. Lewis

December 21st, 2007

CSL Bonny Fighter I recently spoke at the Southeastern Baptist Seminary C. S. Lewis Conference on the topic of Lewis’s formidable presence and continuing impact on American readers and Christians of all communions. Here is a video podcast of that presentation. — Bruce

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