Tag Archives: The Last Battle

Guest Blog: C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven: William O’Flaherty’s Interview with David Clark

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

William O’Flaherty is the intrepid host of the “All About Jack” podcast and the Essential C.S. Lewis website. He interviewed Dr. David Clark, and includes that transcript here as part of our ongoing series on The Great Divorce. Dr. Clark … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, fantasy, heaven, hell, That Hideous Strength, The Great Divorce, The Last Battle, theology, Till We Have Faces | 7 Comments

“Into the Region of Awe” by David C. Downing: A Review

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

For some time I have suspected that David Downing was on to something here. Part of what I’m doing in researching C.S. Lewis is to see what is at the core of who he was as a Christian—not just what … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Christian spirituality, david downing, Galatians 2:20, Into the Region of Awe, mysticism, Planets in Peril, Ransom Trilogy, religion, self-death, The Last Battle, theology, Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 20 Comments

The Fictional Universe of Narnia

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

I am editing a paper Mythcon in August in Norton, MA. I am quite excited to be presenting some of my work on The Screwtape Letters and the Ransom Cycle. It is an unusual audience, a mix of scholars and … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Original Research | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, children's literature, fantasy, Fictional Universes, intertextuality, lion the witch and the wardrobe, literature, myth, Narnia, Ransom Trilogy, Sherlock Holmes, The Last Battle, The Lion, The Magician's Nephew, The Screwtape Letters | 59 Comments

A Poetic Tribute to The Great Knock

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Brenton Dickieson

In an October 2012 blog, “A Tribute to a Mentor,” I told the story of C.S. Lewis’ great teacher, William Kirkpatrick. He was called “The Great Knock” by the Lewis family, and he absolutely transformed C.S. Lewis’ way of thinking. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Biography, Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Digory Kirke, Don King, lion the witch and the wardrobe, literature, mentor, Poetry, religion, Surprised by Joy, The Great Knock, The Last Battle, The Magician's Nephew, William Kirkpatrick | 15 Comments

The Inside is Bigger than the Outside: A Christmas Thought from Narnia for Our World Too

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

“Always winter and never Christmas.” This is the condition where we first discover Narnia in The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. It is not so much blanketed in white as smothered in it, frozen by it. Anyone in my … Continue reading →