In Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe, Jeffrey Hart says of the Socratics that they “sought to know ‘actuality,’ which ultimately had to include everything, and do so independently of religion, myth, and received tradition.”1 While the search for knowledge and understanding of science and philosophy is admirable, the attempt to do so independently of religion […]
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The world of Till We Have Faces (1956) presents readers with a thoroughly pre-modern and non-Greek religion. In the land of Glome, located somewhere in the mountains to the north of Greece (whether more Scandinavian or Russian, it is hard to tell), the people worship Ungit, a feminine deity and sacred stone, which emerged from […]
About 25 years before writing Till We Have Faces, an unconverted C.S. Lewis met with J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson for dinner in his rooms at Magdalen College, followed by a stroll together on Addison’s Walk. He recounted this conversation later in a letter to Arthur Greeves. Tolkien and Dyson had helped Lewis to see […]
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He was asked to manage Lewis’ literary estate, and he fought to keep his works in print and edited new collections for
publication―and did it all in relative obscurity.
by Thomas Howard ONE WAY of putting what Lewis saw his literary task to be would be to say that he wanted to lead his readers to a window, as it were, looking out from the dark and stuffy room of modernity, and to burst open the shutters of that window and point us all […]