God the Great Iconoclast: C.S. Lewis’s Personal Theodicy
In his Summa, Thomas Aquinas recognized that the problem of evil was perhaps the most potent objection one could make to the goodness or even the existence of God.[1] C.S. […]
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Category: Issue Two
Devouring Reason – The Myth of Arachne Retold
“If a man feels that all the movements of his own mind are meaningless, then his mind is meaningless, and he is meaningless; and it does not mean anything to […]
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For What Purpose
Why did Lewis write The Chronicles of Narnia? What purpose did he have in mind when he penned one of the world’s most popular series of books? In his essay, […]
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Augustine’s The Confessions: The Power of Spiritual Autobiography
Since the first sunrise of creation, mankind has relied on story to make sense of a chaotic world. When we experience seemingly random events happening in isolation, storytelling can serve […]
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Finding Faith in Fairy Tales: Answers for Modern Skeptics from C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair
In 2003, Oxford fellow Michael Ward discovered a secret imaginative scheme which C.S. Lewis had embedded into The Chronicles of Narnia. Comparing Lewis’s poem “The Planets” to his discussion of […]
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Hume in Elfland
“We need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an […]
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Sneaking Past Watchful Dragons: Imaginative Apologetics and the Games We Play
“He who changes the sports is secretly changing the manners of the young.” -Plato, The Laws, Book VII In The Laws, Plato says, “he who changes the sports is […]
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Lewis in La La Land
City of stars Are you shining just for me? City of stars There’s so much that I can’t see Who knows? Is this the start of something wonderful and new? […]
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Literary Apologetics: A Spell for the Refreshment of Spirit
“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a storyteller.”[1] ~ G.K. Chesterton As Christian apologists, we at An Unexpected […]
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