Jonathan Cooper
British Literature
Mrs. Bloom
May 14, 2007
The Knowledge, Analysis, and Communication of C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, a don, then fellow at Oxford and finally professor at Cambridge, not only excelled in literary criticism but also apologetics, satire, fantasy, poetry and science fiction. Dr. Bruce L. Edwards wrote, “No brief summary can thus do justice to the many and varied works Lewis produced in his lifetime between 1919-1961.” (C. S. Lewis: A Modest Literary Biography)A
Quantity certainly did not diminish Lewis’s quality. He possessed, according to the Saturday Review, “A powerful, discriminating and poetic mind, great learning, startling wit, and overwhelming imagination.” (Lewissociety.org © 2006) The New Yorker lauded, “If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.” (Lewissociety.org © 2006) But Christianity Today topped them all; in 2000, an article’s subtitle re...
I am deeply disturbed by the fact that I admitted to (so vain of me) believing in Young Earth Creationism in this research paper. The most important contribution of Lewis to my approach is a respect for the unthinking statements (and actions) of human beings. What can be known about God has been made plain to them, and does not out of the abundance the hearts speak? Can not He make the rocks praise Him?