by David » August 29th, 2006, 5:09 pm
When I did my Ph.D. I found quickly that a lot of teachers who are not believers of any sort respect C. S. Lewis as a scholar. They know him as the author of The Allegory of Love, A Preface to Paradise Lost, The Discarded Image, and othe such works. Today I taught a class at a state university and brought in C. S. Lewis's idea of primary and secondary epic in talking about Beowulf.
Sometimes we don't realize that emphasizing the scholarly side of Lewis is a good way to get into his spiritual writing. A good spur to read his more scholarly work!
I have, by the way, read English Literature in the Early Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama--all 600 pages of it! It was worth the journey.
The way, the weather, the terrain, the discipline, the leadership. --Sun Tzu