The Intellectual World of C.S. Lewis
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: April 29, 2013
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780470672792; 9780470672808
Copyright date: 2014
Description: Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis' death, The Intellectual World of C.S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh approach to understanding the key themes at the centre of Lewis' theological work and intellectual development.
Table of contents: title: A brief biography of C.S. Lewis; title: The enigma of autobiography: critical reflections on Surprised by joy; title: The "new look": Lewis's philosophical context at Oxford in the 1920s; title: A gleam of divine truth: the concept of myth in Lewis's thought; title: The privileging of vision: Lewis's metaphors of light, sun, and sight; title: Arrows of joy: Lewis's argument from desire; title: Reason, experience, and imagination: Lewis's apologetic method; title: A "mere Christian": Anglicanism and Lewis's religious identity; title: Outside the "inner ring": Lewis as a theologian.