Book Review: The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot by Janice Brown

Excerpt: Readers of scholarship about C. S. Lewis are familiar with studies that discuss his work and life in the context of his fellow Inklings: Tolkien, Williams, and Barfield. Janice Brown’s decision, however, to treat C. S. Lewis alongside two of his contemporary writers, both non-Inklings—Dorothy L. Sayers and T. S. Eliot—does demand an explanation. Brown must have recognized as much since she begins The Lion in the Waste Land by building a case for considering these three authors together, citing British historian Adrian Hastings, who identifies a “re-appropriation of Christian faith” during World War II and attributes this revival to the “Anglican lay literary and theological writers C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and Dorothy L. Sayers” (2)

Review of C. S. Lewis: Revelation and the Christ

Review of P. H. Brazier. C. S. Lewis: Revelation and the Christ (Eugene, OR, 2012). Book 1: C. S. Lewis: Revelation, Conversion, and Apologetics. 316 pages. $25.20. ISBN 978- 1610977180. Book 2: C. S. Lewis—The Work of Christ Revealed. 320 pages.$31.50. ISBN 9781610977197. Book 3.1: C. S. Lewis—On the Christ of a Religious Economy: I. Creation and Sub-Creation. 318 pages. $32.13. ISBN 9781610977203. Book 3.2: C. S. Lewis—On the Christ of a Religious Economy: II. Knowing Salvation. 344 pages.$38.00. ISBN 9781620329825. Book 4: C. S. Lewis—An Annotated Bibliography and Resource. 208 pages. $16.20. ISBN 9781610979061

C. S. Lewis on Atheism

Lewis had a lot to say about atheists and atheism, mentioning the topic at least seventy-eight times in at least thirty books and essays. Having been an atheist himself, he understood Christianity from—as he put it—the outside. He held many of the same positions that atheists did in the 1910s and 1920s and for many of the same reasons that still influence people today. Although he did not compose any sort of systematic description, definition, or formal reaction to atheism, we can glean a great deal from his writings. Perhaps most important of all, Lewis knew quite a few atheists but avoided making generalizations about them. He knew how different they were from one another and that people become atheists for a wide variety of reasons

No End in Sight

A review essay on three biographies of C. S. Lewis: Alister McGrath, C. S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Carol Stream, IL, 2013). $19.25. 448 pages. ISBN: 9781414339351; Devin Brown, A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis (Grand Rapids, MI, 2013).$11.90. 256 pages. ISBN: 9781587433351; and Duriez, Colin, C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship (Oxford, 2013). $13.34. 256 pages. ISBN: 9780745955872

Root and Neal\u27s The surprising imagination of C. S. Lewis (Book Review)

A review of Root, J. & Neal, M. (2015). The surprising imagination of C. S. Lewis. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. 270 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978142679510

Joeckel\u27s The C. S. Lewis phenomenon: Christianity and the public sphere (Book Review)

A review of Joeckel, S. (2013). The C. S. Lewis phenomenon: Christianity and the public sphere. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. 427 pp. $30.00. ISBN 97888146437

The Myth of Progress in Jonathan Swift and C. S. Lewis

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Review of Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C.S. Lewis

Review of: C. S. Lewis, Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis (New York: HarperOne, 2017). xi + 215 pages. $17.99. ISBN 9780062641649