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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791787003321

Titolo

C.S. Lewis and the church [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Walter Hooper / / edited by Judith Wolfe and Brendan N. Wolfe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : T & T Clark, 2011

ISBN

1-283-01559-5

9786613015594

0-567-39480-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WolfeJ. E <1979-> (Judith Elisabeth)

WolfeB. N (Brendan N.)

HooperWalter

Disciplina

283.092

Soggetti

Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Abbreviations of Works by C.S. Lewis; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Oxford, 1963, and a Young Boswell; Part I: The Church in Lewis' Life; Part II: The Church in Lewis' Writings; Part III: Lewis and the Churches; Index of C.S. Lewis' Works; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

C.S. Lewis, himself a layperson in the Church of England, has exercised an unprecedentedly wide influence on the faithful of Anglican, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and other churches, all of whom tend naturally to claim him as 'one of their own'. One of the reasons for this diverse appropriation is the elusiveness of the churchGÇöin the sense both of his own denomination and of the wider subject of ecclesiologyGÇöin Lewis' writings. The essays contained in this volume critically examine the place, character and role of the Church in Lewis' life. The result is a detailed and scintillating pictur