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So if these realties are left unaccounted for they are destructive. For Lewis, Christianity was this governing power. In The Chronicles of Narnia, it acts as a guard for his literary vision. Lewis took issue with raw romanticism believing that it would self-destruct and be unsuccessful in keeping its word. It does not work well. Lewis states his case in point by identifying the romantics whose focal point of their works was nature: This love, when it sets up as a religion, is beginning to be a…

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are considered to be two of the greatest authors of the last century. Ralph C. Wood in his article “Conflict and Convergence on Fundamental Matters in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien” analyzes the stylistic and philosophical differences between these two authors. His article focuses on the correlation between an author’s philosophy and writings. Although Wood makes valid arguments he is clearly biased towards Tolkien, therefore affecting his credibility. Wood…

these views contain both merits and flaws, the Christian worldview can be found in Shadowlands’ honesty about the nature of suffering and the hope of eternity and QED’s view that suffering and death are learning experiences. Shadowlands begins with C. S. Lewis giving a lecture on love, pain, and suffering. Lewis describes pain as “God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world” (2). Because of free will, humans can be prone to become selfish and self-sufficient. According to Lewis, God uses suffering to…

C.S. Lewis and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe C.S. Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, but has many other well-known novels and series. The best known book in the Narnia series is The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the first book of seven. By looking at The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, one can see that…

There may not be magic rings, wardrobes, or paintings to take us to Narnia, but there is still a way to get there. Was C. S. Lewis creating an allegory in The Chronicles of Narnia? Perhaps not. At the very least, however, his profound belief in Christianity motivated his compelling story. Narnia is all the better off for it.  Works Cited Bruner, Kurt, and Ware, Jim…

necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” (“C.S.Lewis.” BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2016. 26 February 2016. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html). This is said by C.S. Lewis who dared to write about subjects writers at the time few dared to write about. Being raised in a Christian home and sent to Christian boarding schools, C.S. Lewis wrote, The Lion, the Witch, and the…

C.S. Lewis is an extraordinary writer; his book series The Chronicles of Narnia is also a series of movies that are delightful for all ages. It could be said when comparing the two versions of The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that the book is better because it lets the reader live the story instead of just watching it. The book is so much more detailed than the movie; for example, when the protagonist, Lucy, first enters Narnia, when Edmund goes to the witch's…

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned author, has wrote hundreds of novels throughout his career. Many of these novels are thought to be inspiring in a Catholic sense because of Lewis’ religious background. Specifically, in Perelandra, one of his greatest works, Lewis’ incorporates many Catholic themes and traditions into his novel; one of which themes references the story of the Garden of Eve. Moreover, the two main characters in Perelandra, Elwin Ransom and the Un-Man, could possibly resemble Adam and…

President.. President Johnson tone in One With Jesus the Messiah , “when Calvin wrote of being united to Christ, he meant that worshipper are personally joined to the living, incarnate, crucified, resurrected Jesus...this brotherhood with Christ, which Calvin described in strikingly graphic and intimate terms, constituted for him the very essence of salvation. To be saved by Christ, Calvin kept insisting, means to be included in the person of Christ. That is what salvation is” (Johnson 12,…

adopted ecumenically across the Eastern and Western Christian churches, become the new Christian profession of faith (Holcomb 2014, 38). This first version of the Nicene Creed contains critical verbiage regarding the relationship of the Father to the Son, stating they were of identical substance (homoousis). While the Holy Spirit is in the Nicene Creed, it is with little emphasis. This lack of attention opened the doors to fallacies around the deity, equality, and eternality of the Holy Spirit…