The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Brief Biography of C. S. Lewis -- Introduction -- 1: The Enigma of Autobiography: Critical Reflections on Surprised by Joy -- The Ambivalence of Autobiography in Lewis's Literary Outlook -- Augustine of Hippo: A Model for Lewis? -- Autobiography and the Medieval Ars Memorativa -- The Nature of Autobiography: Critical Reflections -- The Historical Reliability of Lewis's Autobiography -- The Implied Audience of "Surprised by Joy" -- Conclusion -- 2: The "New Look": Lewis's Philosophical Context at Oxford in the 1920s -- Lewis's Early Atheism -- Oxford Realism -- The "Treaty with Reality" -- Chronological Snobbery -- The New Psychology -- Scientific Reductionism -- Conclusion -- 3: A Gleam of Divine Truth: The Concept of Myth in Lewis's Thought -- Myth at Oxford, 1880-1930 -- Lewis's Exploration of Myth, 1920-30 -- Lewis and the Christian Myth: Conversion -- Lewis's Understanding of Myth: Three Consequences -- Lewis's Attitude to Myth Contextualized: The "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1944) -- Myth and the Recapturing of the Secular Imagination -- Conclusion -- 4: The Privileging of Vision: Lewis's Metaphors of Light, Sun, and Sight -- The Privileging of Ocular Metaphors: Vision, the Sun, and Light in Lewis's Writings -- The Moral Ambivalence of Seeing: Reflections on Culture and Power -- Seeing Things as They Really Are -- The Sun and Illumination as the Enablers of Knowledge -- Conclusion -- 5: Arrows of Joy: Lewis's Argument from Desire -- Lewis's Approach in its Theological Context -- Lewis's Concept of Desire -- Nature: A Barrier and Pathway to God -- Desire for God? Or Desire for Heaven? -- Desire and the Rationality of the Christian Faith -- Desire, Faith, and Inference to the Best Explanation -- Conclusion.

6: Reason, Experience, and Imagination: Lewis's Apologetic Method -- Language: The Translation of Faith -- The Appeal to Reason -- The Appeal to Human Longing -- The Appeal to the Human Imagination -- Conclusion -- 7: A "Mere Christian": Anglicanism and Lewis's Religious Identity -- Lewis's Suspicions of Denominationalism -- Anglicanism and Lewis's Reconversion -- Anglicanism as a Local Enactment of Faith -- The Absence of an Anglican Ecclesiology -- Lewis and Anglican Theological Method -- Lewis and the Via Media -- Conclusion -- 8: Outside the "Inner Ring": Lewis as a Theologian -- Lewis the Amateur Theologian -- The Problem of Professionalization -- An Ecclesial Context: Theology and the Church of England -- Lewis and the Art of Theological Translation -- Lewis as Theologian: A Gramscian Perspective -- Works by Lewis Cited -- Index.

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