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Michael Ward
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Life on the Silent Planet: Essays on Christian Living from C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy:
"A wonderful collection of essays looking at lessons on Christian Living from C S Lewis's Ransom Trilogy. Michael Ward is the superstar essayist, but other stand out essays come from Louis Markos, Joe Rigney, and Christina Hale.
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Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis:
"This work has ruined me for the better. There was a childish sweetness I used to attribute to the chaos of the chronicles and their characters. But when you really see, hear, and strive to understand Ward’s work and breakdown, you realize Lewis breat"
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Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis:
"Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia advances a distinctive and influential interpretive thesis regarding C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. Ward argues that each volume in the series is thematically shaped by one of the planets of medieval cosmology—a clai"
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"Michael Ward presents a compelling case that astrological, i.e. pre-Copernican medieval cosmology undergirds the narrative framework of The Chronicles of Narnia. It certainly seems right and the missing puzzle piece of Narnia and puts the Space Trilo"
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| I've now finished reading 'Life on the Silent Planet' and am able happily to report that it's very very good indeed, and if you have any interest in Lewis's Ransom Trilogy you should get it for yourself or ask your library to order it. I'm no judge o ...more | |
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“One of his closest friends, Owen Barfield, once said of Lewis that “what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything.”12”
― The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
― The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
“No doubt chivalry is a failure, but it is not such a failure as pacifism. Wars (even just wars) inevitably involve evil, but not so much evil as is involved in passively allowing aggressors to have their way.”
― Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
― Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
“However politically desirable a republic might be, it remains unable to compete imaginatively with monarchy because monarchy in principle more completely mirrors the nature of divine authority. One of the great imaginative advantages of the genre of fairy-tale or romance is to allow for the presentation of such a principle. In fairy-tale the author can leave behind the shallows of the ‘realistic’ novel, and is free to show the reader something better than mundane norms. What might it be like if human kings really did exhibit perfect kingship? The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe attempts an answer.”
― Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
― Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
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