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Index
Title
Dedication
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 George MacDonald, Phantastes
Similarities
MacDonald’s spiritual influence on Lewis
Humility
Reality
Imaginative writing
2 G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Lewis and Chesterton: Discovery
Impact
Recommendation
The Everlasting Man
Influence
Coming home
Conclusion
3 Virgil, The Aeneid
Eschatology and typology
Paradise lost and found
Virgil as Proto-Christian
The true myth
Learning new strategies
The reluctant apologist
4 George Herbert, The Temple
5 William Wordsworth, The Prelude
6 Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy
Platonic “eros”
“Joy”
“Romanticism”
The numinous
Hope and the end of the matter
7 Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Vocation
Philosophy of life
The role of desire and happiness (eudaemonism)
Conversion from earthly desires
Fortune
Conclusion
8 James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
Lewis meets Johnson
The Johnsonian Lewis
Two middle-aged moralists
Two memorable critics
Two charitable satirists
Conclusion
9 Charles Williams, Descent into Hell
10 Arthur James Balfour, Theism and Humanism
Index
Copyright
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