C.S. Lewis, himself a layperson in the Church of England, has exercised an unprecedentedly wide influence on the faithful of Anglican, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and other churches, all of whom tend naturally to claim him as one of their own. One of the reasons for this diverse appropriation is the elusiveness of the church in the sense both of his own denomination and of the wider subject of ecclesiology in Lewis writings. The essays contained in this volume critically examine the place, character and role of the Church in Lewis life. The result is a detailed and scintillating picture of the interactions of one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century theology with the contemporaneous development of the Church of England, with key concepts in ecclesiology, and with interdenominational matters.
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... a significant addition to the scholarly work on Lewis... The authors of this book typically strike just the right balance between a survey of the figure at the heart of the particular chapter and a presentation of some specific examples of their theological interests. -- Church Times ... this is a thought-provoking collection... and it stands well beside Hooper's own most impressive monument, the magnificent three-volume annotated edition of Lewis's letters. -- Oxford Journals This collection of splendid essays portrays a deeply spiritual Lewis from many perspectives. It is an essential read for everyone with interest in any phase of his life. -- Theological Book Review, Volume 23, No.2
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A groundbreaking collection of essays on C. S. Lewis' ecclesiology.
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| Introduction: Oxford, 1963, and a Young Boswell |
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Part I The Church in Lewis' Life |
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1 C.S. Lewis and Early Christian Literature |
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2 `You Must Throw Yourself in': C.S. Lewis and the Victorian Literary Church |
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3 Lewis' Involvement in the Revision of the Psalter |
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Part II The Church in Lewis' Writings |
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4 The Church in C.S. Lewis' Fiction |
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5 C.S. Lewis' Quantum Church: An Uneasy Meditation |
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6 C.S. Lewis and the Eschatological Church |
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7 C.S. Lewis on Relations between the Churches |
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Part III Lewis and the Churches |
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8 `Mere Christianity' and Catholicism |
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9 C.S. Lewis, an `Anonymous Orthodox'? |
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10 Lewis and Historic Evangelicalism |
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11 Lewis as the Patron Saint of American Evangelicalism |
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| Index of C.S. Lewis' Works |
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Brendan Wolfe is a past President and Secretary of the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society, and Executive Editor of The C. S. Lewis Chronicle. A DPhil candidate in church history at the University of Oxford, he is a regular contributor to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and co-editor of the forthcoming Papers Presented at the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society. Judith Tonning is current President and past Secretary of the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society, Executive Editor of The C. S. Lewis Chronicle, and co-editor of the forthcoming Papers Presented at the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society (under review with OUP). She researches and teaches in the Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford, and has contributed essays on eschatology to numerous journals and books, including Eschatology & Phenomenology (Ashgate, 2009).
