The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McGrath, Alister E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Brief Biography of C. S. Lewis
  • Introduction
  • 1: The Enigma of Autobiography: Critical Reflections on Surprised by Joy
  • The Ambivalence of Autobiography in Lewis's Literary Outlook
  • Augustine of Hippo: A Model for Lewis?
  • Autobiography and the Medieval Ars Memorativa
  • The Nature of Autobiography: Critical Reflections
  • The Historical Reliability of Lewis's Autobiography
  • The Implied Audience of "Surprised by Joy"
  • Conclusion
  • 2: The "New Look": Lewis's Philosophical Context at Oxford in the 1920s
  • Lewis's Early Atheism
  • Oxford Realism
  • The "Treaty with Reality"
  • Chronological Snobbery
  • The New Psychology
  • Scientific Reductionism
  • Conclusion
  • 3: A Gleam of Divine Truth: The Concept of Myth in Lewis's Thought
  • Myth at Oxford, 1880-1930
  • Lewis's Exploration of Myth, 1920-30
  • Lewis and the Christian Myth: Conversion
  • Lewis's Understanding of Myth: Three Consequences
  • Lewis's Attitude to Myth Contextualized: The "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1944)
  • Myth and the Recapturing of the Secular Imagination
  • Conclusion
  • 4: The Privileging of Vision: Lewis's Metaphors of Light, Sun, and Sight
  • The Privileging of Ocular Metaphors: Vision, the Sun, and Light in Lewis's Writings
  • The Moral Ambivalence of Seeing: Reflections on Culture and Power
  • Seeing Things as They Really Are
  • The Sun and Illumination as the Enablers of Knowledge
  • Conclusion
  • 5: Arrows of Joy: Lewis's Argument from Desire
  • Lewis's Approach in its Theological Context
  • Lewis's Concept of Desire
  • Nature: A Barrier and Pathway to God
  • Desire for God? Or Desire for Heaven?
  • Desire and the Rationality of the Christian Faith
  • Desire, Faith, and Inference to the Best Explanation
  • Conclusion
  • 6: Reason, Experience, and Imagination: Lewis's Apologetic Method
  • Language: The Translation of Faith
  • The Appeal to Reason
  • The Appeal to Human Longing
  • The Appeal to the Human Imagination
  • Conclusion
  • 7: A "Mere Christian": Anglicanism and Lewis's Religious Identity
  • Lewis's Suspicions of Denominationalism
  • Anglicanism and Lewis's Reconversion
  • Anglicanism as a Local Enactment of Faith
  • The Absence of an Anglican Ecclesiology
  • Lewis and Anglican Theological Method
  • Lewis and the Via Media
  • Conclusion
  • 8: Outside the "Inner Ring": Lewis as a Theologian
  • Lewis the Amateur Theologian
  • The Problem of Professionalization
  • An Ecclesial Context: Theology and the Church of England
  • Lewis and the Art of Theological Translation
  • Lewis as Theologian: A Gramscian Perspective
  • Works by Lewis Cited
  • Index

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