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C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination is unavailable, but you can change that!

C. S. Lewis is one of the best loved and most engaging Christian writers of modern times, and he continues to be a powerful defender of the faith. In his imaginative fiction, his genius finds its fullest expression and makes its most lasting theological contribution. Lewis and his group of friends—famously known as the “Inklings”—employed powerfully creative imaginations to explore the...

Where else indeed could genuine possibilities be found?’ At their best, he says, images represent the self and its world, actual or possible, in a fashion ‘that has an immediacy and concreteness which conceptualizations lack’. Because they are concrete, ‘images are more important for the exercise of human agency than are conceptual prescriptions’.9 David Harned reminds us that images and imagination enable us to make moral decisions because ‘we are free to act in some purposive fashion only within
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