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And The Greatest of These…: A Review of C.S. Lewis’ Four Loves

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

This year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own vault or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be … Continue reading →

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A Toy Left on the Lawn: C.S. Lewis and the Controversy of The Four Loves

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

Tonight I am teaching on C.S. Lewis’ classic treatment, The Four Loves. I read this early in my adult encounter with Lewis (see my old review here), and again this spring when preparing for the course. The Four Loves is probably the … Continue reading →

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Love That Is Not Love: The Character of Pam in The Great Divorce

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

The Great Divorce begins not with characters but with caricatures. We begin with cartoons of a short man with a superiority complex, a cheated hysterical woman, a vacant liberal clergyman, a unisex couple–“both so trousered , slender, giggly and falsetto … Continue reading →

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And The Greatest of These…: A Review of C.S. Lewis’ Four Loves

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

The Four Loves is one of Lewis’ last Christian book and of his popular nonfiction, the one closest to his field of study. His Allegory of Love (1936) was the most popular of his work in literary criticism and was … Continue reading →

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