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Saturday, May 13, 2023
C. S. Lewis Sighting
One of my favorite periodicals is the St. Austin Review (StAR)..
I just got the May/June 2023 issue, and it is dedicated to C. S. Lewis.
The issue includes numerous articles and review related to Lewis, beginning with the editorial by Joseph Pearce: "The Mere Genius of C. S. Lewis."
Other articles include:
A Literary Communion of Saints: C. S. Lewis and the Power of LiteratureThe Great Divorce: A Novel Answer to an Immodest Proposal
Ablution versus Abolition in C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength
If You Haven't Read Narnia Yet
C. S. Lewis' Genius for Apologetics
And a number of other Lewis-related articles and reviews. I have not read them all yet, but I am looking forward to it.
If you have not discovered StAR yet, and you enjoy intelligent examinations of literature and culture from a Catholic/Christian perspective, I urge you to consider subscribing.
My own contact with Lewis began about the time I first encountered G. K. Chesterton.
As I've noted previously, in the mid 1970's when my faith was wavering I happend to come across some works that righted my spiritual ship: The Confessions of St. Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton, and St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton.
Around the same time, though, I also came across the Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis. I read those all in a one week period!
I continued to read Chesterton after than first encounter - but I read even more of Lewis. The science fiction trilogy, Till We have Faces, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Abolition of Man, Surprised by Joy, The Four Loves, A Grief Observed, and severl collections of stories and essay.
I read all those works in a ten-year span. You might say I binged on Lewis!
It is only in the last 20 years that I have been reading enough Chesterton to catch up with the Lewis tally.
Both writers well worth reading.