C.S. Lewis / by Philip Vander Elst.
C.S. Lewis / by Philip Vander Elst.
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Publisher
London : Claridge, 1996.
Date
1996.
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N823.912/L673.1/17
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Language
English
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Physical content
114 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. C. S. Lewis - The Man and His Significance -- Ch. 2. The Repudiation of Atheism -- Ch. 3. In Defence of Christianity -- Ch. 4. Political and Cultural Conservatism -- Ch. 5. Christian Truth in Lewis's Fiction -- Appendix A: Works by and about C. S. Lewis.
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London : Claridge, 1996.
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England
Date Published
1996.
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Summary
C. S. Lewis (1898-1953) was the most talented and lucid apologist for Christianity that our century has produced. In essays, critical studies, poems, novels and works of autobiography, he turned his formidable literary gifts to the task of re-presenting the Christian view of human destiny to a world bewildered by scientific materialism.
Philip Vander Elst surveys the whole of Lewis's vast output, and gives a clear and illuminating summary of his stance towards the outstanding questions of our civilisation. Setting the writings within the context of Lewis's own painful life and striking conversion, he shows the enduring importance of a thinker whose vision of modern life was both c...
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C.S. Lewis / by Philip Vander Elst.
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Thinkers of our time.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [104]-112) and index.
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N823.912/L673.1/17
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74VvDy7q8Oxb
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1870626982
9781870626989
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823.912
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991005075269702626
