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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...

According to one Lewis scholar, because Lewis was a ‘sacramentalist’, he believed that ‘Reality tends toward the concrete.’ Attempts to apprehend reality, this scholar notes in summarizing Lewis’s view, ‘are very far from being exhausted by [the] logical, the discursive, or the propositional’—that is, by reason alone. Hence, ‘Lewis, for all of his rigorous and remorselessly logical manner of pursuing an argument, was at bottom a “catholic”.’ The sacramental imagination is closely related to faith’s
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