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 C. S. Lewis
He wrote an autobiography entitled Surprised by Joy, which describes his conversion (it was written before he met his wife, Joy Gresham).
The movie fictionalizes his relationship with an American writer, Joy Gresham, whom he met and married in London, only to watch her die slowly from bone cancer.
Shadowlands (1993) describes the relationship between C. Lewis and Joy Gresham.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/c_/c__s__lewis.html   (846 words)

  
 C.S. Lewis - ReligionFacts
It is revealed that Malacandra and Perelandra (Mars and Venus) are pure masculinity and pure femininity and, ever since "time turned a corner" when Maleldril became human on Thulcandra, have only been regents of their respective planets until humanity steps into its inheritance.
Surprised by Joy is Lewis' spiritual autobiography, chronicling his journey from childhood Christianity to atheism and back to Christianity.
The love story between Lewis and his wife, and his subsequent grief after her death, is dramatized in the film Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins as Lewis and Debra Winger as Joy.
www.religionfacts.com /christianity/people/lewis.htm   (3328 words)

  
 The Cumberland River Lamp Post - An Appreciation Of C.S. Lewis
(1901-1985) an Inkling, served as an official witness to Lewis's civil marriage to Joy Gresham, Havard first met Jack while making a house call at the Kilns.
In his essay, "Philia: Jack at Ease," he describes this visit and a typical Inklings' meeting, along with a boating holiday he took with Jack and Hugo Dyson.
However, after Joy's cancer was discovered, and later, after Jack's own medical problems began, some associates began to doubt Humphrey's diagnostic abilities (Griffin, 376, 379, Gresham, 134).
www.crlamppost.org /havard.htm   (373 words)

  
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Christian physician Boyd—whose own late wife suffered from heart and kidney problems, paralysis and strokes—extends an honest and compassionate resource for the chronically ill and their caregivers.
Boyd has two goals: to persuade readers that we are facing an "epidemic" of chronic illness, and to help sick people have more joyful lives.
C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer.
www.whereisgod.net /favorites.htm   (4095 words)

  
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After an introductory lecture that will consider Lewis's remarkable range as a writer and that will survey some of the events and people that shaped his thought and his works, we shall jump head-long into a four-lecture consideration of his key apologetical works.
We begin in Lecture Two with a close analysis of both his fictional and non-fictional autobiographies (The Pilgrim's Regress and Surprised by Joy respectively) that will explore not only the nature of Lewis's own conversion to Christianity but the nature of his most powerful and persistent apologetic: the argument by desire.
The final lecture will take up Lewis's last and strangest novel, Till We Have Faces, a mature and profound reworking of the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche whose heroine was patterned after Lewis's wife, Joy Gresham.
fc.hbu.edu /~lmarkos   (9119 words)

  
 Scheduling Speaking Engagements
Lewis's relationships with the Inklings, that band of writers, including Tolkien, who critiqued each other's work--and ideas.
The true story of "Shadowlands" and how Lewis's relationship with Joy Gresham affected both of them, both spiritually and socially.
How to pursue publishable, popular, and scholarly work on Lewis and the Inklings.
personal.bgsu.edu /~edwards/workshop.html   (683 words)

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