SHADOWS AND CHIVALRY studies the influence of George MacDonald, a
nineteenth-century Scottish novelist and fantasy writer, upon one
of the most influential writers of modern times, C. S. Lewis - the
creator of Narnia, literary critic, and best-selling apologist.
While other books, quoting Lewis himself, have only mentioned the
fact that Lewis called MacDonald his "master," and that MacDonald's
Phantastes helped "baptize" Lewis's imagination, this study
attempts to trace the overall effect of MacDonald's work on Lewis's
thought and imagination. Without ever ceasing to be a story of one
man's influence upon another, the study also serves as an
exploration of each writer's thought on, and literary visions of,
good and evil. Lastly, using the metaphor of chivalry, McInnis
looks at what Lewis and MacDonald believed to be greater than
either suffering or hell: the severe and tender Love who longs to
save.
"By far the most penetrating and exhaustive study that I have
seen of the origin in George MacDonald's writings of so many of C.
S. Lewis's ideas. Jeff McInnis's sensitive and highly informed
judgments greatly enrich our understanding of their imaginative and
devotional achievement. A genuinely enriching read for any earnest
Christian mind."
Rolland Hein, Professor Emeritus, Wheaton College
Author of Through the Year with George MacDonald
"Jeff McInnis has written a book that henceforth will be
indispensable to all students of C. S. Lewis who seek to understand
the oft-mentioned but till now not fully fathomed debt of his
literary and theological imagination to George MacDonald. His well
conceived study has the further benefit of doing considerable
justice to the angular graces of MacDonald's anti-Calvinistic under
standing of redemption. McInnis's chapter on "The Chivalry of God"
finds an indispensable key to this great, but out-of-time
conversation between two lay theologians of enduring interest and
literary power."
David Lyle Jeffrey, Distinguished Professor of Literature and
the Humanities, Baylor University
Author of Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations
and Critical Practice
Jeff McInnis (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is Professor of
English at Panola College in Carthage, Texas.
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