The following is an interview with Walter Hooper. It was recorded in his home on July 20, 2016. As you likely know, Walter has been the central figure since the death of C.S. Lewis in making sure Lewis’ writing that were published during his life were reprinted. Also, Hooper has edited the majority of previously unpublished material from Lewis. His C.S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide gives the best single volume summary of the works of Lewis and key facts about his […]
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Before Lewis embraced the Christian faith, he had a lengthy debate with one of his friends, Owen Barfield, about what would be considered involving subtle metaphysical and philosophical distinctions. It became known as the “Great War.” These disagreements impacted Lewis a lot, but this topic isn’t often explored with much detail in biographies. Joy and Poetic Imagination: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s “Great War” with Owen Barfield and its Significance for Lewis’s Conversion and Writings is a book by Dr. Stephen Thorson that […]
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C.S. Lewis was a relative unknown when the first letter from the demon Screwtape was printed in a small Anglican magazine seventy-five years ago in 1941. A half-dozen years later, his face graced the cover of Time magazine. Then three years later, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was published. Can you believe they did a feature story about Lewis before the world had ever heard of Aslan? The average person on the street so strongly associates Lewis with […]
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