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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 son...

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 referre...

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 es...

The most useful and least advanced of all human knowledge seems to me to be that of man [...]. For how can the source of inequality among men be known unless one begins by knowing men themselves? --Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the...

In the western sky at nightfall on any clear early evening for the next couple of weeks, Jupiter and Saturn are shining brightly. These are the only two of the solar system's nine planets currently visible in the evening; unless you count the...

[Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, was one of the "Inklings," a group of friends who met weekly in Lewis's rooms to discuss literature and to read works-in-progress to each other. During the few years of its existence, the group included Lewis, Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, W. H. Lewis, and several other noteworthy regulars. Tolkien, a man of strict and very conservative literary standards, frequently disliked Lewis's imaginative works. But in the f...

Provides a book review of "Out of the Silent Planet" by C.S. Lewis.