The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (Cambridge Companions to Religion)

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A distinguished academic influential Christian apologist and best-selling author of childrens literature C. S. Lewis is a controversial and enigmatic figure who continues to fascinate fifty years after his death. This Companion is the first comprehensive single-volume study written by an international team of scholars to survey Lewiss career as a literary historian popular theologian and creative writer. Twenty-one expert voices from Oxford Cambridge Princeton and Wheaton among many other places of learning analyze Lewiss work from theological philosophical and literary perspectives. Some chapters consider his professional contribution to fields such as critical theory and intellectual history while others assess his views on issues including moral knowledge gender prayer war love suffering and Scripture. The final chapters investigate his work as a writer of fiction and poetry. Original in its approach and unique in its scope this Companion shows that C. S. Lewis was much more than merely the man behind Narnia.