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  C.S. Lewis - MSN Encarta
Lewis was one of the most popular and influential modern defenders of the Christian faith.
Born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis was the son of a lawyer.
Lewis was better known to the general public, however, for books in which he examined and explained moral and religious problems.
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 C. S. Lewis: The Creator of Narnia - Biography
Lewis, or Jack Lewis, as he preferred to be called, was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) on November 29, 1898.
Lewis hated the school, with its strict rules and hard, unsympathetic headmaster, and he missed Belfast terribly.
Soon after he entered the University, however, Lewis chose to volunteer for active duty in World War I, to serve in the British Army then fighting in the muddy trenches of northern France.
www.factmonster.com /spot/narnia-lewis.html   (721 words)

  
 C. S. Lewis
Lewis was a member of the Inklings literary group and a close friend and supporter of J.
Clive Staples Lewis was born 29 November 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Albert Lewis, a respected Police Court Solicitor, and Flora Hamilton Lewis, a promising mathematician.
Lewis also downplayed the development to himself: tacitly it was a marriage of convenience, to keep Gresham and her young sons from being expelled from the country.
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 C. S. Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lewis loved to read, and as his father’s house was filled with books, he felt that finding a book he had not read was as easy as "finding a blade of grass." He also had a mortal fear of spiders and insects as a child, and they often haunted his dreams.
Lewis at first regarded her as an agreeable intellectual companion and personal friend, and it was at least overtly on this level that he agreed to enter into a civil marriage contract with her so that she could continue to live in the UK.
Lewis taught as a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, for nearly thirty years, from 1925 to 1954, and later was the first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/C._S._Lewis   (6543 words)

  
 CS Lewis' Family Values
Clive Staple Lewis had a relatively happy childhood spending most of his days with his brother, Warnie, where storytelling and a love of art were family pursuits.
Lewis was raised in a Protestant family where his strong values in the belief of God and work were rooted.
As a young man, Lewis was not without his issues, compounded with the fact that he was also angry with his father for sending him away to school.
www.thenarniaacademy.org /article_lewisfamilyvalues.htm   (653 words)

  
 CS Lewis WAS An Atheist [Past Tense]
CS Lewis WAS an Atheist – for a time in his life, Lewis was indeed an atheist.
Lewis said, “The great Angler played His fish and I never dreamed that the hook was in my tongue…Atheists cannot be too careful; dangers and traps lie in wait for them on every side.” Lewis began giving consideration to the historic relevance and reality of Christ.
Therefore, her article about CS Lewis deserves no merit, because it didn’t stick to the facts but instead became a drama festival which is not what I intended when I challenged her.
www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/dec/article030.html   (2283 words)

  
 Michael Lewis Music Forums • View topic - JRR Tolkien & CS Lewis: A Legendary Friendship
Tolkien and Lewis shared the belief that through myth and legend?for centuries the mode many cultures had used to communicate their deepest truths?a taste of the Christian gospel's "True Myth" could be smuggled past the barriers and biases of secularized readers.
Lewis, although he used a very rational, knock-down technique in his rhetorical approach to philosophical questions, was a deeply imaginative man who regarded his imaginative self as his most basic self.
Suddenly Lewis could see that the nourishment he had always received from great myths and fantasy stories was a taste of that greatest, truest story?of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
www.michaellewismusic.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1066   (1538 words)

  
 Lewis Bio & Bibliography
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples ("Jack") Lewis was reared in a peculiarly bookish home, one in which the reality he found on the pages of the books within his parents' extensive library seemed as tangible and meaningful to him as anything that transpired outside their doors.
There was, first, Lewis the distinguished Oxbridge literary scholar and critic; second, Lewis, the highly acclaimed author of science fiction and children's literature; and thirdly, Lewis, the popular writer and broadcaster of Christian apologetics.
Lewis emerged during the war years as a religious broadcaster who became famous as "the apostle to skeptics," in Britain and abroad, especially in the United States.
personal.bgsu.edu /~edwards/biobib.html   (1398 words)

  
 C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, as the son of A.J. Lewis, a solicitor, and Flora Augusta (Hamilton).
Lewis had been very close to his mother, who taught him to love books and encouraged him to study French and Latin.
Lewis and his brother were brought up by their father.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /cslewis.htm   (1800 words)

  
 The New Yorker : critics : atlarge
Lewis is defended, analyzed, protected, but always in the end vindicated, while his detractors are mocked at length: a kind of admiration not so different in its effects from derision.
Lewis has an easy time showing that progress is dubious, that evil persists, that imagination has a crucial role to play in life, that life without a shared ritual and some kind of sacred myth is hardly worth living.
Lewis, to the dismay of his friends, went from being a private prig and common-room hearty to being a mensch—a C. of E. mensch, but a mensch.
www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge/articles/051121crat_atlarge   (4166 words)

  
 Kidsreads.com - C. S. Lewis
C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In 1908 when C.S. (who had the nickname "Jack") was just 9 years old, his mother died of cancer.
Since he was a child, Lewis was always an avid reader and skillful writer with a vivid imagination.Throughout his life he published many works for adults, including science fiction, poetry, writings and lectures on Christianity, and scholarly titles.
www.kidsreads.com /authors/au-lewis-cs.asp   (285 words)

  
 C. S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis, Clive Staples Lewis
C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland; baptized an Anglican at St Mark's Dundela, Belfast; and became an atheist in his teens.
Lewis' so-called conversion is described by one of his friends in Light on C. Lewis as having come about by thinking.
Lewis was considered a medieval literature scholar and was fascinated with mythology and fantasy from an early age.
www.blessedquietness.com /journal/homemake/cslewis.htm   (3066 words)

  
 Cs Lewis
Lewis and Clark made it to the Columbia Plains in October 1805, where they collected 23 specimens of plants on their way to the Pacific Ocean, and on their way home the following spring.
Lewis and Clark and their band of brave explorers entered the tallgrass prairie on June 10, 1804, where the Missouri and Chariton Rivers meet in Missouri.
Lewis and Clark and their fellow explorers rode out the winter of 1804/05 in the High Plains, at Fort Mandan, in what we now know as South Dakota.
www.suite101.com /reference/cs_lewis   (1929 words)

  
 St George's Dayton OH CS Lewis
We have read and re-read the majority of Lewis' literary publications, and continue to be fascinated at how he continues to speak to issues of faith and the soul with stunning insight nearly half a century after his death.
Born in Belfast on November 29, 1898, Lewis was raised as an Anglican but rejected Christianity during his adolescent years.
Lewis' conversion inaugurated a wonderful outpouring of Christian apologetics in media as varied as popular theology, children's literature, fantasy and science fiction, and correspondence on spiritual matters with friends and strangers alike.
www.stgeorgeohio.org /Education/lewisgroup.htm   (532 words)

  
 CS Lewis' Continuing Legacy
Although C.S. Lewis is known to many as one of the most powerful literary voices of conservative Christianity, some scholars feel his view of salvation is much more liberal than one would expect.
Amazingly enough, Lewis was known to dismiss myths and fairy tales as children’s stories and nothing else.
Lewis wrote stories that are even now relevant to anyone that ever undergoes change.
www.thenarniaacademy.org /article_lewislegacy.htm   (549 words)

  
 Philosophy of Religion .info - Biographies - Historic Figures - CS Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, Fellow in English at Oxford University’s Magdalen College, and the author of the series of children’s classics The Chronicles of Narnia.
Lewis defends the idea that there is an eternal and immutable moral law that, no matter how much we attempt to reduce it personal preferences and cultural attitudes, cannot be conquered.
Using this device, Lewis seeks to debunk the universalist idea that all are saved, that whatever path one chooses for one’s life will ultimately fulfil the same role as any other and so will lead to the same place.
www.philosophyofreligion.info /lewis.html   (1004 words)

  
 CS Lewis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898, and died on November 22, 1963, at the age of 65.
Lewis was an atheist for most of his childhood until he realized that most of his favorite authors were Christians.
Lewis is my hero for the fact that he is a good role model and an even better author!
www.bend.k12.or.us /cascadems/kinderclass/heroes2002/cs_lewis.htm   (410 words)

  
 C.S Lewis Frequently Asked Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898.
Lewis was part of the Oxford literary circle known as the Inklings, whose members also included J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.
C.S. Lewis used a very strict definition of the word 'allegory' - after all, one of his most important academic books was a study of this subject.
www.aslan.demon.co.uk /cslfaq.htm   (4953 words)

  
 CS Lewis on Osama bin Laden
The lost souls in Lewis’ works sound a lot like the extremists in Iraq: the wickedness of other religions is their gospel; self-righteousness is their liturgy.
Another insight from CS Lewis seems even more on point-what he called the passion for the "Inner Ring." By this he meant an unhealthy desire to belong: a dark ambition to move in the right circles and to win praise from the right kinds of people.
If CS Lewis is right, then winning the war on terror begins by accepting a very religious idea, the proposition that man does not live by bread, or democracy, alone.
www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed040105b.cfm   (435 words)

  
 C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis ("Jack" Lewis to his friends) was a tutor and lecturer at Oxford University, and later Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Cambridge University.
Lewis delivered these in his professional capacity as a specialist in Mediaeval and Renaissance English Literature, but they will be of interest to Christians as well as to English students, for Lewis maintains that one cannot understand or appreciate the poem without understanding (not necessarily accepting) the beliefs that the poem presupposes.
Lewis asks what will happen if we reverse the process by distinguishing two kinds of pleasures to be gotten from books (or music, or painting) and then distinguishing books on the basis of the kind of pleasure that they offer, or the way in which they invite the reader to approach them.
www.satucket.com /lectionary/cslewis.htm   (1306 words)

  
 The C.S. Lewis Society of California
Of his many works, Lewis is probably best known for his book series, The Chronicles of Narnia, which have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and are now the subject of a major new series of films.
As a result, we welcome those who may be interested in C.S. Lewis to participate in the program of the C. Lewis Society of California.
The Society is an educational and cultural organization of people interested in events, publications, and other developments that advance deeper understanding of the life, works, and ideas of C. Lewis and others who are addressing the enduring philosophical, cultural, historical, literary, theological, social, and economic issues of mankind.
www.lewissociety.org   (766 words)

  
 C. S. Lewis Institute
C.S. Lewis, "Is Theology Poetry?" The Weight of Glory and other Addresses (New York: Harper Collins publishers, 1980), p.
Beginning in fall 2006, the C.S. Lewis Institute is offering a Spiritual Mentor Training Program as Year Three of the Fellows Program.
Recordings of C.S. Lewis Institute Conferences (either in CD or cassette form, as available) may be purchased online using our secure online ordering mechanism or you may purchase recordings by credit card by phone at
www.cslewisinstitute.org   (277 words)

  
 Dan Berger's CS Lewis links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The C.S. Lewis Foundation, "a donor supported public benefit organization dedicated to advancing the renewal of Christian thought and academic freedom within the mainstream of contemporary colleges and universities."
The Bible and CS Lewis, a site which collects Lewis' arguments in favor of Christianity and does so in an accessible and useful way.
A contrarian view: The Lewis Legacy is edited by Lewis scholar Kathryn Lindskoog, who has had several public battles with representatives of Lewis' estate, including Douglas Gresham.
www.bluffton.edu /~bergerd/lewis.html   (158 words)

  
 BBC NI Learning - Writing Home website - profile of CS Lewis
As an adult I was shocked to learn that CS Lewis actually came from Belfast!
Although he is one of Ulster's most widely read and acclaimed authors, he is not as well known by his fellow country people as he should be.
S. Lewis the man, the storyteller and the Christian.
www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/learning/getwritingni/wh_lewis.shtml   (245 words)

  
 Narnia Fans - Prince Caspian Movie News (In Theaters May 16, 2008) | Made By and For Fans of C.S. Lewis and Chronicles ...
Magis Theatre Company will stage an adaptation of C.S. Lewis' novel THE GREAT DIVORCE in collaboration with Eastern Gate Entertainment at Theatre 315 in New York City's theatre district.
The Petoskey area is gearing up for its fourth annual month-long festival honoring the life and works of author C.S. Lewis.
C. Lewis biographer Dr. Alan Jacobs will recieve the 2006 John Pollock Award for Christian Biography on Tuesday Oct. 10 at Samford University.
www.narniafans.com /?type=cs_lewis   (652 words)

  
 Poet: CS Lewis - All poems of CS Lewis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Poet: CS Lewis - All poems of CS Lewis
Committed to advancing the renewal of Christian thought and academic freedom through its summer institutes in Oxford and Cambridge, the CS Lewis Study...
A comprehensive CS Lewis site that includes a daily quote, photographs, illustrations, scholarly papers, discussion forums, audio files, complete lists of...
www.poemhunter.com /cs-lewis   (211 words)

  
 C.S. LEWIS HALL - AUSTIN, TEXAS
If you are interested in learning more about CS Lewis Hall, please subscribe to one of our email lists by clicking here or by using the tool bar link in the upper right hand corner of this page.
Parents, who want to be involved in their children's education, but want to benefit from the experience of qualified and committed educators, will find an educational home-away-from-home for themselves and their children.
Lewis Hall isn't for everyone, but for those who long to experience the benefits of both home and traditional schooling, Lewis Hall has the experience and commitment to make that happen.
www.lewishall.org   (272 words)

  
 C.S. Lewis and Public Life
"In Defense of C.S. Lewis: A rebuttal of recent denunciations of the classic Chronicles of Narnia as racist, misogynist, 'poisonous' works." By Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2001.
Includes articles from John West and other authors, the C.S. Lewis Centennial Conference Papers, and the C.S. Lewis and Public Life Book.
The full text of Spirits in Bondage, letters from Lewis, his will, a list of the ten books that influenced him most, and more.
www.discovery.org /cslewis   (105 words)

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