A Myth Retold

by Martin Sutherland (Editor)

Overview

Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis fascinates his readers still. Well established as a key figure in children's literature he is increasingly recognized as a significant Christian thinker. The authors in this volume are from a wide range of Christian traditions--testimony to the reach and significance of Lewis's legacy. The essays return to Lewis's devotional and theological works, assessing their place in his own thought and in the theology of the twentieth century. Lewis emerges as an insightful and creative theologian whose ideas continue to surprise in their sophistication and fecundity. Indeed, it is suggested that he represents a way of doing theology--"mere theology"--which suggests ways in which Christian thought may reengage the complex cultural debates of the contemporary world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610972475
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	09/29/2014
Series:	C. S. Lewis Secondary Studies
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Martin Sutherland is Vice-Principal (Academic) at Laidlaw College in Auckland, New Zealand. He has published widely on historical theology and is author of Conflict and Connection: Baptist Identity in New Zealand (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction Martin Sutherland vii

1 Convergence in Joy: A Comparison of the Devotional Practices of Lewis and That "Dreadful Man Karl Barth" David W. Williams 1

2 Corresponding Theologically with C.S. Lewis Geoffrey Holt 24

3 Revelation and Natural Theology Roger Driver-Burgess 38

4 C.S. Lewis's Argument against Naturalism John Owens 57

5 God and the Moral Law in C.S. Lewis Matthew Flannagan 69

6 C.S. Lewis, Animals, and Nature Red in Tooth and Claw Nicola Hoggard Creegan 93

7 Mere Christianity for Mere Gods: Lewis on Theosis Myk Habets 110

8 A Narnian Way to Heaven: Judgment, Universalism, and Hell in Lewis's Vision Martin Sutherland 130

Bibliography 145