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Reason, Imagination, and Universalism in C. S. Lewis
… this thesis demonstrates that C. S. Lewis was in fact far more liberal in his view of salvation than many would expect. Lewis argued for a universalist interpretation of salvation, in which the death of Christ opened up the possibility of salvation for all of humanity, not merely …
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Hierarchy and the Self in the Trilogy of C. S. Lewis
<p>C.S. Lewis' view of the individual in a hierarchical universe is not simply the restatement of a static medieval ideal. In his trilogy he presents the unfolding of the hierarchical view of the universe, with emphasis on time and the growth of the self into a model of universal reality.</p> <p>If …
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An invitation to thought: ambiguity in the apologetic of C. S. Lewis
… role of ambiguity within the apologetic of C.S. Lewis. Though the nature and value of ambiguity remain contested across scholarship, there is agreement that ambiguity has some role to play in creating understanding. That role is almost entirely unexplored within Christian apologetics and Lewis …
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Christian apologetics in transition : from C. S. Lewis to Frederick Buechner and Susan Howatch.
… a fundamental dimension in the writings of C. S. Lewis, Frederick Buechner, and Susan Howatch. Radical changes in epistemology during the latter half of the twentieth century serve as a point of contrast dividing Lewis' approach to apologetics, on the one hand, and Buechner's and Howatch's …
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Myth and archetype as meaning in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces.
From his early youth, C. S. Lewis was interested in pagan mythologies; he credits them with preparing the way for him to embrace Christianity as an adult, which was vitally important to him in his adult life. In Till We Have Faces, a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth, Lewis brings together the …
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Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, . . . and C. S. Lewis? Two Revolutionary Philosophical, Moral, and Cultural Critiques
… moral, and cultural criticism: C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man (1944) and Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Written during, and greatly influenced by, the horrors of WWII, both works attempt a theoretically rigorous and substantive account of …
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C. S. Lewis and the Premodern Rhetorical Tradition: The Abolition of Man as Rhetoric and Philosophy of Education
… question: How does The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) function as a rhetoric and philosophy of education to open up meaningful alternatives to modern education? Although Lewis originally composed and delivered the text as three lectures in response to the felt educational concerns of …
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Physical causes and rational belief: A problem for materialism?
… persons in this century; two versions in C. S. Lewis are my primary paradigms for the argument in question.
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The problem of faith and the self: the interplay between literary art, apologetics and hermeneutics in C.S. Lewis's religious narratives
… is the essential nature of C. S. Lewis’s religious narratives created by twofold enterprise—imaginative writing and Christian apologetics, this thesis aims to undertake a comprehensive reception of Lewis’s works by considering carefully the inter-mixture of literary art and …
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An epic journey from creation to destruction
… argued about the allegorical features of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. The premise of this thesis expands the concept that, rather than allegory, Lewis writes supposals--inventions giving imaginary answers to questions that help to reify Christ and his teaching for his readers, both young …
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To Reach the Unreachable Stars: Reexamining the Shared Arthurian Vision of C. S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy and Raymond Chandler's Marlowe Novels
<p>Although Raymond Chandler and C. S. Lewis seem to be a rather strange pairing, the ways in which they both borrow from Arthurian literature and use the myth to speak to their cultural moment are strikingly similar. Following T. S. Eliot’s use of the Grail quest in <em>The Waste Land</em> (which …
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Of Mushrooms and Shangri-L.A.: Food in Fantastic Literature for the Young
… the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, and the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block.
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John Piper: The Making of a Christian Hedonist
… Piper's next major influence was C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), discovered during his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College, who introduced him to romantic rationalism. Piper's first teacher at Fuller Seminary was Daniel P. Fuller (1925- ), a hermeneutics professor who planted the seeds of …
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The idea of love in the writings of C.S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963) wrote both fiction and non-fiction, both essays and books throughout his life. The purpose of this study is to examine the fiction he wrote for adults in light of his expository statements about love found in his "Equality," "The Weight of Glory," Mere Christianity, and, …
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An Initial Exploration of the Undergraduate English Major Curricula Issued by the 2000-2001 Member Schools of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
… the 20th century. Milton, Chaucer, and C. S. Lewis dominated.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The aggregate CCCU English major curriculum appeared to be: 1. Dominated by literature, especially British/English and American literatures 2. Structured in the traditional tripod of literature, …
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Art and Sabbath: A Christian Response to Arthur Schopenhauer's Palliative Aesthetic
… Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and C. S. Lewis. Moreover, the chapter examines several biblical passages that seem to affirm that the arts serve a rehabilitative function. Chapter 7 demonstrates how the arts can function in a manner consistent with a biblical Sabbath. The chapter also …
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The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal's Abductive Anthropological Argument
… the Christiformic journeys of Augustine, C. S. Lewis, and Jonathan Edwards represent flesh-and-blood instances of Scripture’s portrait of Christiformic image-bearers. These instances supply evidence that the doctrine of the imago Dei plausibly explains the human condition. Thus, they also …
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Merlin, the Brain, and the Market: Intelligent Machines and Global Order in Public Debates in Britain 1945-50
… major public intellectuals: J D Bernal, C S Lewis, and F A Hayek. These figures are rarely considered in direct relation to one another and are identified with very different intellectual contributions and political positions, but I show how they were each intensely concerned with the nature …
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A Survey of Adolescent Reading Habits and Influences : A Study in Selected Parochial Secondary Schools
… Tolkien, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and C. S. Lewis. Favorite thematic categories included friendships, science fiction, fantasy and religion. The students affirmed their use of reference sources such as dictionaries and encyclopedias while indicating that they seldom use the libraries in their …