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C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier - Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy (Hardcover)
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C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier - Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy (Hardcover)
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C.S. Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet,
Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength - was completed over sixty
years ago and has remained in print ever since. In this
groundbreaking study, Sanford Schwartz offers a new reading that
challenges the conventional view of these novels as portraying a
clear-cut struggle between a pre-modern cosmology and the modern
scientific paradigm that supplanted it.
Schwartz situates Lewis's work in the context of modern
intellectual, cultural, and political history. He shows that Lewis
does not simply dismiss the modern "evolutionary model," but
discriminates carefully among different kinds of evolutionary
theory-"mechanistic" in Out of the Silent Planet, "vitalist" in
Perelandra, and "spiritual" in That Hideous Strength-and their
distinctive views of human nature, society, and religious belief.
Schwartz also shows that in each book the conflict between
Christian and "developmental" viewpoints is far more complex than
is generally assumed. In line with the Augustinian understanding
that "bad things are good things perverted," Lewis constructs each
of his three "beatific" communities-the "unfallen" worlds on Mars
and Venus and the terrestrial remnant at St. Anne's-not as the
sheer antithesis but rather as the transfiguration or "raising up"
of the particular evolutionary doctrine that is targeted in the
novel. In this respect, Lewis is more deeply engaged with the main
currents of modern thought than his own self-styled image as an
intellectual "dinosaur" might lead us to believe. He is also far
more prepared to explore the possibilities for reshaping the
evolutionary model in a manner that is simultaneously compatible
with traditional Christian doctrine and committed to addressing the
distinctive concerns of modern existence.
C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier highlights the enduring relevance
of Lewis's fiction to contemporary concerns on a wide variety of
issues, including the ethical problems surrounding bio-technology
and the battle between religious and naturalistic worldviews in the
twenty-first century. Far from offering a black and white contrast
between an old-fashioned Christian humanism and a newfangled
heresy, the Space Trilogy should be seen as a modern religious
apologist's searching effort to enrich the former through critical
engagement with the latter.
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