Summary: Tracking the history of how Lewis was received in the United States. Not using these words, it seems that Noll is making the case that while Evangelicals may be defined as those who love Billy Graham, ecumenicals may be defined as those who love CS Lewis. Noll traces the response in the United States … Read more
Summary: CS Lewis imagines Heaven and Hell. This is the most recent Renovaré Book Club selection. My biggest problem with book clubs is staying on the schedule. I generally read too fast or too slow to stay with the group. The Great Divorce is a fairly short book and it is being split into five … Read more
Summary: A return to Narnia by the original four children, for them a year later. After I read My Side of the Mountain and thought it wasn’t quite right as a read-aloud for my kids, I picked up Prince Caspian. I have previously read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and we started, but … Read more
Summary: The only one of the Narian books that is primarily focused on the people of the world where the country of Narnia is located. Earlier in the pandemic, I had grand plans of reading to my children chapter books of my childhood every day. We read The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and … Read more
Summary: After almost two weeks of reading, my children watched the 2005 movie last night. I have looked forward to my children being old enough that I started liking the books I was reading to them. Many of the books I read are still very young (my son just turned five, and my daughter is 16 … Read more
Takeaway: Lots of classic Lewis here. I went through a period when I was reading a ton of CS Lewis (either by or about). I looked today and if I counted correctly I have finished 19 of Lewis’ books, many of them multiple times and started but did not finish another 4. But it has … Read more
Takeaway: The intro by CS Lewis is worth the cost of the book. But the rest proves his point. CS Lewis is known for advocating the reading of old books. And while he put that in print in a couple of places. The best known of these is his introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation. … Read more
Summary: CS Lewis imagines Heaven and Hell. Fiction is important for working through difficult ideas. Many people underestimate the power of fiction to help readers understand difficult concepts. This is my second or third reading of The Great Divorce. Lewis is not writing a systematic theology of heaven, hell, or the afterlife. He is instead … Read more
Takeaway: A story of regret and complaint, joy and pain. Much like the story of many of us. As regular readers of this blog well know, I have been intentionally reading a lot of CS Lewis for about 18 months. Lewis is an icon of Christian literature. And there are few that can compete with … Read more
Summary: The history and influence of Mere Christianity. I stumbled across the audiobook of CS Lewis’ Mere Christianity: A Biography when I was looking for another book by George Marsden. I have previously read two other books from The Lives of Great Religious Books series (Letters and Papers from Prison and the Book of Common … Read more