C.S. Lewis, Merlin, and Messy Apologetics

When people think about C.S. Lewis and fiction, they often think of the Chronicles of Narnia, which were published between 1950 and 1956. However, Lewis also wrote an earlier and […]

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The Virtuous Arthur: Resolving a Tension Between Lewis and Spenser

In Images of Life, C.S. Lewis rejects Spenser’s “Letter to Raleigh” as authoritative for interpreting the character of Arthur. Spenser writes, “I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was […]

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What is Cultural Apologetics?

What is cultural “apologetics”? It is a question that has become a topic of heightened interest recently in light of the new Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and one I […]

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Lewis, Lear, and The Four Loves

“William Shakespeare is not generally thought of as a religious apologist,” so began the call for papers for this special issue, to which we might reply, C.S. Lewis is not […]

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Nella Sua Voluntade

“In His Will [is our peace].”[1] Nella Sua Voluntade is the title of a chapter in C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress. In Lewis’s writings, we find God’s peace and battling […]

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‘The Spiritual Borders of Sci-Fi’: C.S. Lewis and A Voyage to Arcturus

Preliminary: Why A Voyage to Arcturus? The limits of the literary genre Science Fiction (‘sci-fi’) have stretched ever since, according to C.S. Lewis, its works rose sharply in production in […]

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Gender, Not Sex: Presentation of Gender Roles in Lewis’s The Ransom Trilogy

Having abused and misconstrued the word “gender,” we moderns have succeeded in obscuring its meaning entirely. Gender can apply to a quality that we are born with, or more recently, […]

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C. S. Lewis, Myth, and Filmmaking

Long before history began recording them, man has communicated through stories. Stories of wonder. Stories of courage. Stories of power. Stories of gods. In today’s age, stories are released from […]

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Lewisvaldi

With the onset of Spring, it dawned on me that not only did Lewis have a fair amount to say about new life and Spring, he also had quite a […]

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C.S. Lewis Talk and Panel

An Unexpected Journal will have a table at the “Lewis Talk and Panel” hosted by Houston Baptist University’s School of Christian Thought.  Come and hear from some of the top […]

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