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...

Judith Wallerstein ushers a reporter into the living room of her spacious home in Marin County, California, decorated with African masks, Japanese woodcuts and Hopi Kachina dolls. Outside a large picture window, the San Francisco Bay beckons invitingly just a stone's throw away. "Did...

This essay is not a reflection on C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, which discusses the great divide between good and evil, Heaven and Hell. Nor is it a commentary on the marital split that often occurs between husband and wife. It is...

The pedagogic purpose of "The Great Divorce" is to correct a misunderstanding of a misunderstanding of the Christian doctrine of Hell, to clarify what Dante saw written over the gates of the Inferno: "Justice moved my High Maker: Divine Power made me Wisdom Supreme, and Primal Love." The original misunderstanding was to think of the Law of God in terms of the laws of men, that is, as something He imposes on individuals, with or without their consent, and for breaking which He imp...