C.S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces

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HarperCollins, 2000 - Literary Collections - 894 pages
This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C.S. Lewis brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters and poems, C.S. Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defence of faith, but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and story-telling. In the ESSAY COLLECTION we find a treasure trove of Lewis's reflections on diverse topics.

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Contents

The Grand Miracle
3
Is Theology Poetry? ΙΟ
10
The Funeral of a Great Myth
22
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

C S Lewis was a Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1925 to 1954 when he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. For many years an atheist, his conversion to Christianity in 1929 was a catalyst for his development as a Christian writer.

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