Clive Staples Lewis was a celebrated Anglo-Irish novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, lay theologian and Christian apologist whose impact and influence lives on.

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Tag: Literary Critic


C. S. Lewis on Language

April 9th, 2015

C. S. Lewis saw language as a defining characteristic of what it means to be made in the image of God. We possess the gift of speech from a verbal Creator—the God of the Bible speaks, and his speech is itself an expression of His creative power. Indeed, just as the Biblical God speaks the […]

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C. S. Lewis’s Great Experiment

January 26th, 2015

A book few readers of C. S. Lewis will ever voluntarily pick up has the unwieldy, even forbidding title, An Experiment in Criticism. The title conceals more than it reveals. An experiment in what? And criticism of whom? The title doesn’t tell. It’s the classic book that you need to know what it’s about before […]

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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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