C. S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet / Alister McGrath.
Material type: TextPublication details: Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2013.Description: xvi, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1414339356
- 9781414339351 (hc)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Lewis, C. S. M147 | Available | 33111007097583 |
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ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)! Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia, and an atheist-turned-Christian thinker.In C.S. Lewis--A Life , Alister McGrath, prolific author and respected professor at King's College of London, paints a definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis. After thoroughly examining recently published Lewis correspondence, Alister challenges some of the previously held beliefs about the exact timing of Lewis's shift from atheism to theism and then to Christianity. He paints a portrait of an eccentric thinker who became an inspiring, though reluctant, prophet for our times.You won't want to miss this fascinating portrait of a creative genius who inspired generations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1 : Prelude. The soft hills of down : an Irish childhood, 1898-1908 -- The ugly country of England : schooldays, 1908-1917 -- The vasty fields of France : war, 1917-1918 -- -- Part 2 : Oxford. Deceptions and discoveries : the making of an Oxford don, 1919-1927 -- Fellowship, family, and friendship : the early years at Magdalen College, 1927-1930 -- The most reluctant convert : the making of a mere Christian, 1930-1932 -- A man of letters : literary scholarship and criticism, 1933-1939 -- National acclaim : the wartime apologist, 1939-1942 -- International fame : the mere Christian, 1942-1945 -- A prophet without honour? : postwar tensions and problems, 1945-1954 -- -- Part 3 : Narnia. Rearranging reality : the creation of Narnia -- Narnia : exploring an imaginative world -- -- Part 4 : Cambridge. The move to Cambridge : Magdalene College, 1954-1960 -- Bereavement, illness, and death : the final years, 1960-1963 -- -- Part 5 : Afterlife. The Lewis phenomenon.
A definitive portrait of the life of C.S. Lewis.