We Remember C.S. Lewis: Essays & Memoirs

by Philip Yancey

Book Overview

This collection of essays and memoirs illustrates the breadth of influence upon today's leading evangelical writers and thought shapers of a man some have called the twentieth century's greatest... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805422994
• ISBN13: 9780805422993
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Like a brownie: hard to resist one last crumb!

I've always been a bit surprised and suspicious of the C. S. Lewis industry: the fact that I like reading Lewis, doesn't mean I like reading about him. (Though, if push comes to shove, I have to admit I do. Just no slobbering, please.) Fortunately this is a collection of essays by colleagues, students, and friends of Lewis who, even while writing about Lewis, have other things on their minds -- the purpose of English teaching, Oxford, redemption, even (in the gardener's case) his own bad jokes. There are even a few critical stories. Most of the essays are well written and insightful, and gave plenty of Boswell-like anecdotes not only of Lewis, but of other peculiar denizens of Oxford as well. Graham could have saved himself the occasional bone thrown to evangelicals, though, as far as I'm concerned. I really don't care how Bob Jones reconciles the work of the Holy Spirit and beer. Billy Graham and J. I. Packer didn't seem to have much to say. Also, the editor protested a bit too much about "hero worship." There's no need to apologize for this book, otherwise. The book arrived in the mail on Friday afternoon. By Saturday afternoon I was chewing on crumbs. To me, one of the most interest comments was the suggestion by one writer that Lewis had been influenced by the marvellous chapter "The Ethics of Elfland" in G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. I am beginning to suspect that Wilhelm Grimm was a very clever, and also successful, evangelist, and that there might be a secret link between the Seven Dwarves and Trumpkin. author, Jesus and the Religions of Man