Essay Collection & Other Short Pieces (Hardcover)

As Well As His Famous Theological Books And The Chronicles Of Narnia, C.s. Lewis Wrote Numerous Essays And Other Short Pieces In His Lifetime. Most Were Originally Published In Various Journals And Later Scattered In Small Collections. Now In One Volume The Best Of The Essays Are Brought Together. The Essays Vary In Length And Complexity, Depending On Their Subject, But All Bear The Marks Of Integrity Of Mind And Simplicity Of Language. Together They Demonstrate What Makes Lewis's Writing Timeless In Its Appeal To All Kinds Of People.--jacket. The Grand Miracle -- Is Theology Poetry? -- The Funeral Of A Great Myth -- God In The Dock -- What Are We To Make Of Jesus Christ? -- The World's Last Night -- Is Theism Important? -- The Seeing Eye -- Must Our Image Of God Go? -- Christianity And Culture -- Evil And God -- The Weight Of Glory -- Miracles -- Dogma And The Universe -- 'horrid Red Things' -- Religion : Reality Or Substitute? -- Myth Became Fact -- Religion And Science -- Christian Apologetics -- Work And Prayer -- Religion Without Dogma? -- The Decline Of Religion -- On Forgiveness -- The Pains Of Animals -- Petitionary Prayer -- On Obstinacy In Belief -- What Christmas Means To Me -- The Psalms -- Religion And Rocketry -- The Efficacy Of Prayer -- Fern-seed And Elephants -- The Language Of Religion -- Transposition -- Why I Am Not A Pacifist -- Dangers Of National Repentance -- Two Ways With The Self -- Meditation On The Third Commandment -- On Ethics -- Three Kinds Of Men -- Answers To Questions On Christianity --^ The Laws Of Nature -- Membership -- The Sermon And The Lunch -- Scraps -- After Priggery, What? -- Man Or Rabbit? -- 'the Trouble With X ... ' -- On Living In An Atomic Age -- Lilies That Fester -- Good Work And Good Works -- A Slip Of The Tongue -- We Have No 'right To Happiness' -- Christian Reunion -- Priestesses In The Church? -- On Church Music -- Christianity And Literature -- High And Low Brows -- Is English Doomed? -- On The Reading Of Old Books -- The Parthenon And The Optative -- The Death Of Words -- On Science Fiction -- Miserable Offenders -- Different Tastes In Literature -- Modern Translations Of The Bible -- On Juvenile Tastes -- Sex In Literature -- The Hobbit -- Period Criticism -- On Stories -- On Three Ways Of Writing For Children -- Prudery And Philology -- Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings -- Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's To Be Said -- It All Began With A Picture ... -- Unreal Estates -- On Criticism -- Cross-examination --^ A Tribute To E.r. Eddison -- The Mythopoeic Gift Of Rider Haggard -- George Orwell -- A Panegyric For Dorothy L. Sayers -- The Novels Of Charles Williams -- Learning In War-time -- Bulverism -- The Founding Of The Oxford Socratic Club -- My First School -- Democratic Education -- Blimpophobia -- Private Bates -- Meditation In A Toolshed -- On The Transmission Of Christianity -- Modern Man And His Categories Of Thought -- Historicism -- The Empty Universe -- Interim Report -- Is History Bunk? -- Before We Can Communicate. First And Second Things -- The Poison Of Subjectivism -- Equality -- De Futilitate -- A Dream -- Hedonics -- Talking About Bicycles -- Vivisection -- The Humanitarian Theory Of Punishment -- Behind The Scenes -- The Necessity Of Chivalry -- The Inner Ring -- Two Lectures -- Some Thoughts -- Xmas And Christmas -- Revival Or Decay? -- Delinquents In The Snow -- Willing Slaves Of The Welfare State -- Screwtape Proposes A Toast -- The Conditions For A Just War -- The Conflict In Anglican Theology -- Miracles -- Mr C.s. Lewis On Christianity -- A Village Experience -- Correspondence With An Anglican Who Dislikes Hymns -- The Church's Liturgy, Invocation And Invocation Of Saints -- The Holy Name -- Mere Christians -- Canonisation -- Pittenger-lewis And Version Vernacular -- Capital Punishment And Death Penalty -- The Man Born Blind -- The Dark Tower -- Ministering Angels -- The Shoddy Lands -- After Ten Years -- Forms Of Things Unknown. Edited By Lesley Walmsley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xiii-xiv) And Index.

Hardcover. English. Fount. 2000. ISBN: 9780006281573. 1024 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 63695