![]() In order to understand and appreciate Lewis’s overall project, Kort organizes Lewis’s writings into three parts: “reasonable assumptions,” “cultural critiques,” and “applied principles.” Within each part, Kort includes essays on individual works of Lewis, which can be read as stand-alone commentaries, followed by a summary essay pulling together the thematic issues that inform Lewis’s vision of reality and his apologetical method.Īfter a helpful introduction sketching the context for Lewis’s work-his “Englishness,” his identification with and love of Ireland, his erudition, his interest in myth, his relationship with English modernity, his return to Christianity, and his expectations for his readers-Kort begins part one of the book by looking at Lewis’s spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy. ![]() Kort hopes to provide an alternative reading of Lewis, one that brings into view “the stable, basic, and even controlling constants of his work” (p. ![]() vii) of Lewis, notes a tension between those who admire Lewis’s work because of the academic credibility it brings to Christianity, and those who are critical of it because his defense of Christianity compromises the value of his other scholarly or imaginative works. ![]() Wesley Kort, who describes himself as “neither a devote nor detractor” (p. ![]() Lewis is to “give attention both to particular texts and to a structural wholeness or coherence in Lewis’s work” (p. ![]()
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