The British novelist and essayist Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was an established literary figure whose impact is increasingly recognized by scholars and teachers. On November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland. He was the...

Once best known as a Christian apologist and the author of The Screwtape Letters, and admired by at least two generations of scholars as a teacher and literary historian, C. S. Lewis may eventually be most famous for the seven books, collectively...

Although C. S. Lewis published, as Peter J. Kreeft notes in his C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay, "some sixty first-quality works of literary history, literary criticism, theology, philosophy, autobiography, Biblical studies, sermons, formal and informal...

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)(1898 s Argument from Reason. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press,...

Novelist, critic, poet, essayist, and Christian apologist Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was born in Belfast on November 29, served in France, and was wounded during World War I. He completed his undergraduate studies at University College,...

C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, published during the 1950s, are the most widely read Christian fairy tales of the twentieth century. C. S. Lewis Children devour them, not realizing, in most cases, that they are reading religious...

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, and...

In her review of "Shadowlands" {Style, Aug. 17}, Lloyd Rose makes some statements about C. S. Lewis that are misleading if not just outright wrong. While it is true that Lewis lived for about 30 years with Janie Moore, who was 25 years his...

What has C.S. Lewis to do with Christmas? Well, nothing really-except that C.S. Lewis was the most influential Christian apologist of the 20th century, and Christian apologetics began on that starry Bethlehem night when shepherds abiding in the fields and keeping watch over...

   The second remarkable attribute Charlie possessed was his keen sense of identity. In my profession of leader development, I see how leaders view themselves. I’ve seen many embrace the image of servant-leadership in an effort to improve performance. I don’t have a problem with...

A Hollywood partnership between best-selling author Clive Cussler and Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz had the potential to spawn a lucrative action-film franchise such as the "Indiana Jones" series. Instead, the collaboration went sour and led them to a California court room.Anschutz gave Cussler creative control...

In the following essay, Schakel examines elements of satire in Lewis's fiction. Schakel asserts that "Lewis's success as a satirist, which has not been sufficiently taken into account in previous studies of Lewis, must be given attention if Lewis's works, and his literary imagination, are to be fully understood."

In the following essay, Meilaender examines Lewis's ability to illustrate the spiritual significance of commonplace experience. For Lewis, Meilaender notes, "the whole of life … every ordinary and everyday moment of it, every choice that we make, is charged with the significance of an eternal either/or."

In the following essay, Nelson provides an overview of Lewis's literary career and intellectual development.