C. S. Lewis – A Life

by Alister McGrath

Lucas, John. “The Restoration of Man.” Theology 58 (1995): 445–456.

  Lundin, Anne. “On the Shores of Lethe: C. S. Lewis and the Romantics.” Children’s Literature in Education 21 (1990): 53–59.

  MacSwain, Robert, and Michael Ward, eds. The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

  Manley, David. “Shadows That Fall: The Immanence of Heaven in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis and George MacDonald.” North Wind 17 (1998): 43–49.

  McBride, Sam. “The Company They Didn’t Keep: Collaborative Women in the Letters of C. S. Lewis.” Mythlore 29 (2010): 69–86.

  McGrath, Alister E. The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

  Meilander, Gilbert. “Psychoanalyzing C. S. Lewis.” Christian Century 107, no. 17 (1990): 525–529.

  ———. The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.

  ——— . “Theology in Stories: C. S. Lewis and the Narrative Quality of Experience.” Word and World 1, no. 3 (1981): 222–230.

  Menuge, Angus J. L. “Fellow Patients in the Same Hospital: Law and Gospel in the Works of C. S. Lewis.” Concordia Journal 25, no. 2 (1999): 151–163.

  Miller, Laura. The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2008.

  Mills, David, ed. The Pilgrim’s Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.

  Morris, Francis J., and Ronald C. Wendling. “C. S. Lewis: A Critic Recriticized.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 22, no. 2 (1989): 149–160.

  ———. “Coleridge and ‘the Great Divide’ between C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 22, no. 2 (1989): 149–159.

  Morris, Richard M. “C. S. Lewis as a Christian Apologist.” Anglican Theological Review 33, no. 1 (1951): 158–168.

  Mueller, Steven P. “C. S. Lewis and the Atonement.” Concordia Journal 25, no. 2 (1999): 164–178.

  Myers, Doris T. “The Compleat Anglican: Spiritual Style in the Chronicles of Narnia.” Anglican Theological Review 66 (1984): 148–180.

  ———. Bareface: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s Last Novel. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004.

  Nelson, Michael. “C. S. Lewis and His Critics.” Virginia Quarterly Review 64 (1988): 1–19.

  ———. “‘One Mythology among Many’: The Spiritual Odyssey of C. S. Lewis.” Virginia Quarterly Review 72, no. 4 (1996): 619–633.

  Nicholi, Armand M. The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life. New York: Free Press, 2002.

  Nicholson, Mervyn. “C. S. Lewis and the Scholarship of Imagination in E. Nesbit and Rider Haggard.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 51 (1998): 41–62.

  ———. “What C. S. Lewis Took from E. Nesbit.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 16, no. 1 (1991): 16–22.

  Noll, Mark A. “C. S. Lewis’s ‘Mere Christianity’ (the Book and the Ideal) at the Start of the Twenty-First Century.” Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review 19 (2002): 31–44.

  Odero, Dolores. “La ‘experiencia’ como lugar antropológico en C. S. Lewis.” Scripta Theologica 26, no. 2 (1994): 403–482.

  Osborn, Marijane. “Deeper Realms: C. S. Lewis’ Re-Visions of Joseph O’Neill’s Land under England.” Journal of Modern Literature 25 (2001): 115–120.

  Oziewicz, Marek, and Daniel Hade. “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell? Philip Pullman, C. S. Lewis, and the Fantasy Tradition.” Mythlore 28, no. 109 (2010): 39–54.

  Patrick, James. The Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford, 1901–1945. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1985.

  Pearce, Joseph. C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church. Fort Collins, CO: Ignatius Press, 2003.

  Phillips, Justin. C. S. Lewis in a Time of War. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006.

  Poe, Harry L., ed. C. S. Lewis Remembered. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006.

  ———. “Shedding Light on the Dark Tower: A C. S. Lewis Mystery Is Solved.” Christianity Today 51, no. 2 (2007): 44–45.

  Prothero, Jim. “The Flash and the Grandeur: A Short Study of the Relation among MacDonald, Lewis, and Wordsworth.” North Wind 17 (1998): 35–39.

  Purtill, Richard L. C. S. Lewis’s Case for the Christian Faith. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.

  ———. Lord of the Elves and Eldils: Fantasy and Philosophy in C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006.

  Reppert, Victor. C. S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003.

  Root, Jerry. C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2009.

  Rossow, Francis C. “Giving Christian Doctrine a New Translation: Selected Examples from the Novels of C. S. Lewis.” Concordia Journal 21, no. 3 (1995): 281–297.

  ———. “Problems in Prayer and Their Gospel Solutions in Four Poems by C. S. Lewis.” Concordia Journal 20, no. 2 (1994): 106–114.

  Sayer, George. Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997.

  Schakel, Peter J. “Irrigating Deserts with Moral Imagination.” Christian Reflection 11 (2004): 21–29.

  ———. Reading with the Heart: The Way into Narnia. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1979.

  ———. Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis: A Study of “Till We Have Faces.” Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1984.

  ———. “The Satiric Imagination of C. S. Lewis.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 22, no. 2 (1989): 129–148.

  Schakel, Peter J., and Charles A. Huttar, eds. Word and Story in C. S. Lewis: Language and Narrative in Theory and Practice. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1991.

  Schwartz, Sanford. C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

  ———. “Paradise Reframed: Lewis, Bergson, and Changing Times on Perelandra.” Christianity and Literature 51, no. 4 (2002): 569–602.

  Seachris, Joshua, and Linda Zagzebski. “Weighing Evils: The C. S. Lewis Approach.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 62 (2007): 81–88.

  Segura, Eduardo, and Thomas Honegger, eds. Myth and Magic: Art According to the Inklings. Zollikofen, Switzerland: Walking Tree, 2007.

  Smietana, Bob. “C. S. Lewis Superstar: How a Reserved British Intellectual with a Checkered Pedigree Became a Rock Star for Evangelicals.” Christianity Today 49, no. 12 (2005): 28–32.

  Smith, Robert Houston. Patches of Godlight: The Pattern of Thought of C. S. Lewis. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1981.

  Stock, Robert Douglas. “Dionysus, Christ, and C. S. Lewis.” Christianity and Literature 34, no. 2 (1985): 7–13.

  Taliaferro, Charles. “A Narnian Theory of the Atonement.” Scottish Journal of Theology 41 (1988): 75–92.

  Tennyson, G. B., ed. Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.

  Terrasa Messuti, Eduardo. “Imagen y misterio: Sobre el conocimiento metafórico en C. S. Lewis.” Scripta Theologica 25, no. 1 (1993): 95–132.

  Tynan, Kenneth. “My Tutor, C. S. Lewis.” Third Way (June 1979): 15–16.

  Van Leeuwen, Mary Stewart. A Sword between the Sexes?: C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2010.

  Walker, Andrew. “Scripture, Revelation and Platonism in C. S. Lewis.” Scottish Journal of Theology 55 (2002): 19–35.

  Walker, Andrew, and James Patrick, eds. A Christian for All Christians: Essays in Honor of C. S. Lewis. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1992.

  Walsh, Chad. C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics. New York: Macmillan, 1949.

  ———. The Literary Legacy of C. S. Lewis. London: Sheldon, 1979.

  Ward, Michael. “The Current State of C. S. Lewis Scholarship.” Sewanee Theological Review 55, no. 2 (2012): 123–144.

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��. Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  Watson, George. “The Art of Disagreement: C. S. Lewis (1898–1963).” Hudson Review 48, no. 2 (1995): 229–239.

  Wheat, Andrew. “The Road before Him: Allegory, Reason, and Romanticism in C. S. Lewis’ The Pilgrim’s Regress.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 51, no. 1 (1998): 21–39.

  Williams, Donald T. Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition. Nashville, TN: B & H Publishing Group, 2006.

  Williams, Rowan. The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia. London: SPCK, 2012.

  Wilson, A. N. C. S. Lewis: A Biography. London: Collins, 1990.

  Wolfe, Judith, and Brendan N. Wolfe, eds. C. S. Lewis and the Church. London: T & T Clark, 2011.

  Wood, Naomi. “Paradise Lost and Found: Obedience, Disobedience, and Storytelling in C. S. Lewis and Phillip Pullman.” Children’s Literature in Education 32, no. 4 (2001): 237–259.

  Wood, Ralph C. “The Baptized Imagination: C. S. Lewis’s Fictional Apologetics.” Christian Century 112, no. 25 (1995): 812–815.

  ———. “C. S. Lewis and the Ordering of Our Loves.” Christianity and Literature 51, no. 1 (2001): 109–117.

  ———. “Conflict and Convergence on Fundamental Matters in C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 55 (2003): 315–338.

  Yancey, Philip. “Found in Space: How C. S. Lewis Has Shaped My Faith and Writing.” Christianity Today 57, no. 7 (2008): 62.

  III. OTHER WORKS CONSULTED

  Aston, T. S., ed. The History of the University of Oxford. 8 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984–1994.

  Bartlett, Robert. The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

  Brockliss, Laurence W. B., ed. Magdalen College Oxford: A History. Oxford: Magdalen College, 2008.

  Cantor, Norman F. Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century. New York: William Morrow, 1991.

  Carpenter, Humphrey. J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography. London: Allen & Unwin, 1977.

  Ceplair, Larry, and Steven Englund. The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930–1960. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

  Chance, Jane, ed. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

  Collins, John Churton. The Study of English Literature: A Plea for Its Recognition and Organization at the Universities. London: Macmillan, 1891.

  Cunich, Peter, David Hoyle, Eamon Duffy, and Ronald Hyam. A History of Magdalene College Cambridge 1428–1988. Cambridge: Magdalene College Publications, 1994.

  Dal Corso, Eugenio. Il Servo di Dio: Don Giovanni Calabria e i fratelli separati. Rome: Pontificia Università Lateranense, 1974.

  Darwall-Smith, Robin. A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  Davidman, Joy. “The Longest Way Round.” In These Found the Way: Thirteen Converts to Christianity, edited by David Wesley Soper, 13–26. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1951.

  ———. Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman. Edited by Don W. King. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009.

  Dearborn, Kerry. “The Baptized Imagination.” Christian Reflection 11 (2004): 11–20.

  ———. “Bridge over the River Why: The Imagination as a Way to Meaning.” North Wind 16 (1997): 29–40, 45–46.

  Drout, Michael D. C. “J. R. R. Tolkien’s Medieval Scholarship and Its Significance.” Tolkien Studies 4 (2007): 113–176.

  Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

  Fitzgerald, Jill. “A ‘Clerkes Compleinte’: Tolkien and the Division of Lit. and Lang.” Tolkien Studies 6 (2009): 41–57.

  Flieger, Verlyn. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World. Kent, OH: Kent State University, 2002.

  Foster, Roy. The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland. London: Allen Lane, 2001.

  Freeden, Michael. “Eugenics and Progressive Thought: A Study in Ideological Affinity.” Historical Journal 22 (1979): 645–671.

  Garth, John. Tolkien and the Great War. London: HarperCollins, 2004.

  Goebel, Stefan. The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

  Haldane, J. B. S. Possible Worlds. London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.

  Harford, Judith. The Opening of University Education to Women in Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008.

  Hart, Trevor, and Ivan Khovacs, eds. Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007.

  Hassig, Debra. Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  Hatlen, Burton. “Pullman’s His Dark Materials: A Challenge to Fantasies of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, with an Epilogue on Pullman’s Neo-Romantic Reading of Paradise Lost.” In His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman’s Trilogy, edited by Millicent Lenz and Carole Scott, 75–94. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005.

  Hennessey, Thomas. Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition. London: Routledge, 1998.

  Herford, C. H. The Bearing of English Studies upon the National Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910.

  James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. New York: Longmans Green, 1902.

  Jeffery, Keith. Ireland and the Great War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  Ker, Ian. G. K. Chesterton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

  Kerry, Paul E., ed. The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.

  King, Don W. Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2008.

  Littledale, R. F. “The Oxford Solar Myth.” In Echoes from Kottabos, edited by R. Y. Tyrrell and Sir Edward Sullivan, 279–290. London: E. Grant Richards, 1906.

  Majendie, V. H. B. A History of the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s). Taunton, Somerset: Phoenix Press, 1921.

  Mangan, J. A. Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology. London: Frank Cass, 2000.

  McGarry, John. Northern Ireland and the Divided World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  McMurtry, Jo. English Language, English Literature: The Creation of an Academic Discipline. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1985.

  O’Brien, Conor Cruise. Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

  Oddie, William. Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  Padley, Jonathan, and Kenneth Padley. “‘From Mirrored Truth the Likeness of the True’: J. R .R. Tolkien and Reflections of Jesus Christ in Middle-Earth.” English 59, no. 224 (2010): 70–92.

  Parsons, Wendy, and Catriona Nicholson. “Talking to Philip Pullman: An Interview.” The Lion and the Unicorn 23, no. 1 (1999): 116–134.

  Rhode, Deborah L. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

  Roberts, Nathan. “Character in the Mind: Citizenship, Education and Psychology in Britain, 1880–1914.” History of Education 33 (2004): 177–197.

  Shaw, Christopher. “Eliminating the Yahoo: Eugenics, Social Darwinism and Five Fabians.” History of Political Thought 8 (1987): 521–544.

  Shippey, Tom. Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien. Zollikofen, Switzerland: Walking Tree, 2007.

  Teichmann, Roger. The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  Thomson, G. Ian F. The Oxford Pastorate: The First Half Century. London: The
Canterbury Press, 1946.

  Tolkien, J. R. R. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. Edited by Humphrey Carpenter. London: HarperCollins, 1981.

  Townshend, Charles. Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion. London: Allen Lane, 2005.

  Wain, John. Sprightly Running: Part of an Autobiography. London: Macmillan, 1962.

  Watson, Giles. “Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oecumenical Penguin.” Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review 14 (1997): 17–32.

  Watson, G. J. Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Joyce, Yeats and O’Casey. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1994.

  Werner, Maria Assunta. Madeleva: Sister Mary Madeleva Wolff, CSC: A Pictorial Biography. Notre Dame, IN: Saint Mary’s College, 1993.

  Williams, Charles. To Michal from Serge: Letters from Charles Williams to his Wife, Florence, 1939–45. Edited by Roma A. King, Jr. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2002.

  Wilson, Ian. “William Thompson Kirkpatrick (1848–1921).” Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society 8, no. 1 (2000–2001): 33–40.

  Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  Wolfe, Kenneth M. The Churches and the British Broadcasting Corporation 1922–1956: The Politics of Broadcast Religion. London: SCM Press, 1984.

  Worsley, Howard. “Popularized Atonement Theory Reflected in Children’s Literature.” Expository Times 115, no. 5 (2004): 149–156.

  Wyrall, Everard. The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s) 1914–1919. London: Methuen and Co., 1927.

  NOTES

  1 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Sonnets (New York: Harper, 1988), 140.

  2 Surprised by Joy, 266. Elsewhere in Surprised by Joy, Lewis refers to this as a “reconversion”: ibid., 135.

  3 Alister E. McGrath, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis (Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

  4 Surprised by Joy, 1.

  5 W. H. Lewis, “C. S. Lewis: A Biography,” 27.

  6 Available online at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000721989/. The entry “Cannot Read” is in a different hand.