C. S. Lewis

Patricia Jordan, long-time Buck Hiller, passed away on October 10th. Born in Brooklyn to the late Estelle (Sanders) and I. Jerome Riker, and the sister of the late Stanley Riker, Pat was educated at the Berkeley Institute, The Packer Collegiate Institute, and Columbia University. A writer and the author of a humorous book “Under the Dryer,” she married the love of her life in June 1950 and began her family. Pat discovered Buck Hill in the 1960s when she was looking for a place close enough to…

are so many questions about love and what it is. C. S. Lewis dedicated a whole book just to love and what it is. In his book he theorized that there are four different types…

Finally, Lewis uses his Biblical understanding of Heaven to signify that Heaven is immeasurably more important when in comparison to either Earth or Hell. The substance of Heaven is truer and the reality of Heaven much deeper than the temporal substance of Earth. Lewis demonstrates this through his description of Heaven and the corresponding description of Hell. He writes; I had the sense of being in a larger space, perhaps even a larger sort of space, than I had ever known before: as if the sky…

C.S. Lewis In The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a quote that says, “One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again” This is a quote that people could take many ways, which is where the adventure starts with C.S. Lewis. The world of literature wouldn’t be the same without having one of the most well known authors. Clive Staples Lewis was an important and legendary literary author because of his early life and religion’s, his middle life and struggles being in the war, and his…

Out of the silent Planet is the first novel in Lewis’ overlooked space trilogy, it is a small book yet has a lot of information in it. In the opening work, we’re introduces to Dr. Ransom who falls into the clutches of two nefarious scientists, Weston and Devine. These men have constructed a space vessel, and intend to travel to the planet Malacandra, to hand Ransom over to the aliens who live there. After they land Ransom flees his human captors, but crosses paths with the same aliens he…

In a Perfect World “All that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C.S. Lewis. How much better of a world would we find ourselves in today if all of the “long terrible story” had never been told? I believe we might feel more joy and less despair in our lives, find comfort everywhere, and embrace unity. We might even see our path in…

Meaning is out there, but how does one find it? Many search for meaning in friendship, but become slaves to the pressures of the inner circle. In a speech titled “The Inner Circle,” C.S. Lewis argues that there is nothing at the center of the inner circle. In fact, Lewis believes that a life driven by the “inner circle” is unhealthy. In The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, Ivan lives a life of convention. He spends a great deal of time trying to fit in with the elite, high class members of…

for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." - C.S. Lewis Metamorphosis, they say is the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two distinct stages. Let us take by precedence the case of a caterpillar. As children, many of us learn about the wondrous process by which a…

makes “theological feminism” the lens through which she evaluates C.S. Lewis’ portrayal of women in his works. She discusses this term as the understanding that, according to Christian theology, that “the subordination of ego as well as of concerns of worldly power to the ultimate authority of divine love is liberating” (Hilder 21). Whereas in her essay “A Sword Between the Sexes,” Mary Van Leeuwen expresses her frustration with Lewis’ portrayal of “archetypal femininity and wifely obedience in…

Lewis provides similar structures in Narnia. In the same sense that the ordinary rabbit hole turns out to be an extraordinary portal in Alice in Wonderland, the plain wardrobe turns out to be a doorway into the Narnia. The fantastical element of the wardrobe…