Dante's 'Paradiso' and C. S. Lewis
A human being can be close to God in terms of a spiritual 'nearness', and also close to God in terms of amount of power. Lewis has...
'The light beyond the material universe is intellectual light.'
Any attempt to write a book about C. S. Lewis and his work has to come to terms with the fact that so much has already been written about...
What is Father Christmas Doing in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
What is Father Christmas doing in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? Why do Silenus, satyrs (fauns) and other creatures from classical...
'Voyage to Venus' and Transcendence
Of course, the opening chapter of Voyage to Venus, discussed earlier in this blog, is only that - the start of the adventure. Having...
The Politics of C. S. Lewis
If we accept that, for Lewis, the Earth was in truth a spinning speck of dust remotely distant from Heaven in a cosmos centred around...
The Universe That 'Turns'
Of all of C. S. Lewis’s vast contribution to literature and to thought in the Twentieth Century, it is his last book, The Discarded...
The Mediaeval Heavens Part 1
We’re so used to thinking of the physical universe as obeying certain ‘laws’ that we can get muddled about the idea of it. A ‘law’...
'Eucatastrophe' in Stories
Consider the most powerful, memorable moments in your own reading. Think for a moment about the scenes in your favourite books or films...
Owen Barfield and the Nature of Reality
Owen Barfield, British philosopher and close friend of C. S. Lewis, said once that Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry, his...
The Influential Wisdom of Owen Barfield
Educated at Highgate School and Wadham College, Oxford, Owen Barfield was a solicitor in London, from which he retired in 1959 aged 60....