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Great Links: Joel Heck’s C.S. Lewis Site and Calendar

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

As part of my Great Links occasional feature, Joel Heck’s website is certainly worth highlighting. Dr. Heck is a theology and Bible professor at the Concordia University of Texas and a long time reader of C.S. Lewis. I have reviewed … Continue reading →

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What Did C.S. Lewis do on his Birthdays? An Eleventy-Fifth Birthday Inquiry that Failed

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Brenton Dickieson

On the occasion of his eleventy-fifth birthday, I thought I would ask how intrepid author and academic C.S. Lewis spent his birthdays? It is great question. It was my goal to sit down and share some of the things that … Continue reading →

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The Beginnings of Complicated (Dis)Agreement: C.S. Lewis’ 2nd Letter to Charles Williams

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Brenton Dickieson

After posting the first letters between C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams last week, it was requested that I post Lewis’ second letter to Williams. Williams worked for Oxford University Press and was reading Lewis’ first academic book, The Allegory of … Continue reading →

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“The Planets” in C.S. Lewis’ Writing

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Brenton Dickieson

It does not take long for a serious reader of C.S. Lewis to realize that he was in love with cosmology—the planets and the stars as they sit within the vast expanse of space. His first popular fiction was science … Continue reading →

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A Statistical Look at C.S. Lewis’ Letter Writing

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Brenton Dickieson

I have often heard that C.S. Lewis is one of the great letter writers of history. I can hardly make any comparison; the only other letter collections I have on my shelf are single volumes by J.R.R. Tolkien, Dylan Thomas, … Continue reading →

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