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I am a professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This is on the edge of "Amish country," and I sometimes pass a horse and buggy on my way to and from campus.

I grew up in Colorado, went to college in Santa Barbara, CA, and earned my PhD from UCLA. I currently teach professional and creative writing at Elizabethtown, as well as a first-year seminar on quest narratives.

I first read the Narnia Chronicles as a college sophomore. I was so enthralled, I read all seven books in a month, then re-read them again the next month. I published my first article on C. S. Lewis that same year. I tackled Lord of the Rings in my junior year of college, and I still remember reading all night, the sun coming up just when I ...more

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A new photograph of the young C. S. Lewis has been found, taken when he was in t...

A new photograph of the young C. S. Lewis has been found, taken when he was in training at Keble College for military service during World War 1. He arrived at the front line trenches of France on his 19th birthday.

An Unknown Photograph of C. S. Lewis �� Keble College
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C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) is one of the best-known Oxford dons of all time. He gained a ��Triple First�� whil Read more of this blog post »

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	The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith 4.04 avg rating — 811 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking for the King (Inklings, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles 4.21 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis 4.09 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy 4.15 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	C.S. Lewis and the Arts: Creativity in the Shadowlands by David C. Downing (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bruce Herman, Jerry Root 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	303 Dumb Spelling Misstakes...and What You Can Do About Them by David C. Downing (Goodreads Author), Mario Riso (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What you know might not be so: 220 misinterpretations of Bible texts explained 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.”
― David C. Downing, Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis

tags: discontent, heaven, mysticism

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“Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind that so often makes everyday living a burden. For mystics from the Abrahamic faiths, however, the inward odyssey is also an upward odyssey, a quest for personal and vital communion with an infinite Being.”
― David C. Downing, Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis

tags: intimacy

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