This is a big book. It’s not to be read at one sitting. It’s for dipping in and out. Lewis was plainly a hugely gifted man and I found his letters endlessly fascinating. When he’s writing to his fellow Christians he can be profundity itself. In one he describes an evening spent with fellow theologians (including Tolkien) mulling over Matthew 7:14, a text that declares that “narrow is the way and few they be that find it”. This, Lewis concludes, is probably the “most distressing text in the Bible”. It begs the question “whether one really could believe in a universe in which the majority were damned and also in the goodness of God”.
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‘Beyond Narnia’ Releases on DVD
Readers and movie fans worldwide know the land of Narnia and the magical beings who dwell there. But many fans do not know the extraordinary creative force – C.S. Lewis – who created this beloved fantasy. “C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia,” originally aired on December 9, in primetime exclusively on the Hallmark Channel, and will release on DVD through Gaiam on March 28, 2006, with distribution into the CBA market through EMI Distribution. […]
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The Chronicles of C.S. Lewis
A lion offering his own life on a stone altar and then coming to life again to help save a kingdom is part of the story line in the C.S. Lewis book, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. While it may sound like a Christian allegory, that may not be the case. […]
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Back to Narnia: Harry Potter’s Mother Country
“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval,” he said, “instead of merely a descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.” […]