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Using a philosophical lens to more deeply examine, appreciate, and
understand C. S. Lewis's writings Drawing on C. S. Lewis's essays,
sermons, and fiction, The Lion's Country offers a comprehensive
exploration of Lewis's understanding of reality-important, Charlie
W. Starr argues, to more fully understand Lewis's writing but also
to challenge and inform our own thought about what constitutes the
Real. For Lewis, reality is not simply a matter of what we can
ascertain with our senses; the Real includes but also transcends
the physical. Indeed, for Lewis, who is perhaps the most
influential Christian writer of the 20th century, God is the most
Real thing there is. Yet during the modernist era when Lewis lived,
taught, and wrote, the prevailing view was that the only legitimate
knowledge was that which could be derived from empirically provable
facts. Lewis's rejection of such a narrow belief prompted him to
ask, "What are facts without interpretation?" and led to his
lifelong pursuit of experiencing and understanding the Real. Much
of his fiction, including The Chronicles of Narnia, is
fundamentally about how we can encounter reality and be certain of
what we know. Starr's unique look at Lewis's philosophical and
theological underpinnings extends even to a discussion of heaven
and what it would be like to see the face of God. Including a
never-before-released passage from Lewis's unpublished Prayer
Manuscript, The Lion's Country is an essential contribution to
Lewis studies.
While visiting with Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie notices a bookshelf filled with such titles
as Nymphs and Their Ways and Is Man a Myth? Beginning with these
imaginary texts, Charlie W. Starr offers a comprehensive study of
C. S. Lewis’s theory of myth, including his views on Greek and
Norse mythology, the origins of myth, and the implications of myth
on thought, art, gender, theology, and literary and linguistic
theory. For Lewis, myth represents an ancient mode of thought
focused in the imagination—a mode that became the key that
ultimately brought Lewis to his belief in Jesus Christ as the myth
become fact. Beginning with a foreword by Lewis scholar Devin
Brown, The Faun’s Bookshelf goes on to discuss the many books
Lewis imagined throughout his writings—books whose titles he made
up but never wrote. It also presents the sylvan myths central to
the first two book titles in Mr. Tumnus’s library, including
explorations of the relationshipbetween myth and reality, the
spiritual significance of natural conservation, and the spiritual
and incarnational qualities of gender. Starr then turns to the
definition of myth, the literaryqualities of myth, the mythic
nature inherent in divine glory, humanity’s destiny to embrace
(or reject) that glory, and a deeper exploration of the
epistemological ramifications of myth in relation to meaning,
imagination, reason, and truth.
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