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050 4 _aPR6023.E926 .M347 2014
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100 1 _aMcGrath, Alister E.
245 1 4 _aThe Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aNewark :
_bJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
_c2013.
264 4 _c©2013.
300 _a1 online resource (207 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aNew York Academy of Sciences Series
505 0 _aCover -- 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.
505 8 _a6: 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aLewis, C. S.-(Clive Staples),-1898-1963-Criticism and interpretation.
650 0 _aLewis, C. S.-(Clive Staples),-1898-1963-Philosophy.
650 0 _aChristian literature, English-History and criticism.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMcGrath, Alister E.
_tThe Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis
_dNewark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2013
_z9780470672792
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aNew York Academy of Sciences Series
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