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Last Romantic, The : C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology
Outline : Many readers have heard C. S. Lewis's logical arguments for the Christian faith. Yet throughout his wide-ranging study and writing. Lewis often began with experience, intuition, and religious feeling rather than dogmatic assertions. The most profound questions of Lewis's own life, argues theologian and literary critic Jeffrey Barbeau, can be seen in his quest to understand the relationship between personal experience and the truth about the world around him. Barbeau explores the influence of nineteenth-century Romanticism on Lewis, demonstrating his indebtedness to Romantic notions of imagination and subjectivity, opening new contexts for understanding ideas about memory and personal identity in his autobiographical writings, and exploring beliefs about nature and Christian sacraments throughout his writings on Christian faith. This theological and literary investigation reveals Lewis as a profoundly modern thinker and illuminates his ongoing relevance to our own contemporary debates about theology and culture. Drawing on extensive reading of the marginalia in the personal of C, S. Lewis, Barbeau and respondents Sarah Borden, Matthew Lundin, and Keith L. Johnson offer a fresh understanding of the influence of modern theology and Romantic poetry, especially Wordsworth and Coleridge, on many of Lewis's most beloved works. Building on the annual lecture series hosted at Wheaton College's Marion E. Wade Center, Hansen Lectureship Series volumes reflect on the imaginative work and lasting influence of seven Brith authors: Owen Barfield, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.
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