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Article: The baptized imagination: C.S. Lewis's fictional apologetics.(Cover Story)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- August 30, 1995
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THERE IS no dearth of interest in C. S. Lewis. The popularity of Richard Attenborough's film version of Shadowlands has let to numerous restagings of William Nicholson's drama and the restocking of Lewis shelves in bookstores. Despite the steady interest in Lewis, however, many readers--conservative and liberal--get Lewis wrong. They see him either as a rationalist defender of Christian faith who slew its secular enemies or as a hidebound reactionary who understood nothing of modernity. At his best, Lewis fits neither description. In his finest literary work, especially in Till We Have Faces, he serves as a confessor of Christian faith who engages the whole of our ...
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