Comments on: Any Lewis Fans in the Crowd? http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/ Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:14:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2723 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:15:43 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2723 Thanks, Victor, I'd like to check that out after I read Dr. Beversluis. Thanks, Victor, I’d like to check that out after I read Dr. Beversluis.

]]> by: Victor Reppert http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2674 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:12:44 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2674 This is a link to the IVP website where you can get to the "book excerpts" section for my C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea. There you will be able to read my response to some of the issues Dr. Beversluis raises. http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/toc/code=2732 This is a link to the IVP website where you can get to the “book excerpts” section for my C. S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea. There you will be able to read my response to some of the issues Dr. Beversluis raises.

http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/toc/code=2732

]]> by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2603 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:09:02 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2603 Victor, so glad to have you here--I didn't know how linnks would show up at Blogger. Anyway--you're right, you weren't saying that, and mea culpa--I was a bit tired when I wrote last night. I'll update the post. Based on taking his class, I think Beversluis liked Lewis and admired his efforts but couldn't help finding them wanting. And as a philosopher he certainly doesn't hesitate to criticize sloppy reasoning. I remember getting to the end of a tortuous paragraph in one of my own papers and actually typing "This is hopelessly circular reasoning ..." When it came back, B. had marked "Yes." Victor, so glad to have you here–I didn’t know how linnks would show up at Blogger. Anyway–you’re right, you weren’t saying that, and mea culpa–I was a bit tired when I wrote last night. I’ll update the post. Based on taking his class, I think Beversluis liked Lewis and admired his efforts but couldn’t help finding them wanting. And as a philosopher he certainly doesn’t hesitate to criticize sloppy reasoning. I remember getting to the end of a tortuous paragraph in one of my own papers and actually typing “This is hopelessly circular reasoning …” When it came back, B. had marked “Yes.”

]]> by: Victor Reppert http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2598 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:12:38 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2598 I shared that misunderstanding until I read his review of A. N. Wilson's biography, that is. I shared that misunderstanding until I read his review of A. N. Wilson’s biography, that is.

]]> by: Victor Reppert http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2597 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:10:33 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2597 I didn't say that he is the consummate Lewis-basher. I said that there are passages in his book that come across as if he were a consummate Lewis-basher. Just to mention two, at one point he calls Lewis's thinking "considerably worse than fuzzy," and at another accuses him of "irresponsible writing." I think he was writing a book to bring out a critical perspective on Lewis that had been lacking in previous writings, and ended up saying things that were taken both by Lewis fans and Lewis enemies to show that Lewis was a second-rate thinker. I think that his revised edition will show this was a misunderstanding of his position, although I will have to admit that it is a misunderstanding which I shared. He will still argue that Lewis's apologetics don't work, but I am anticipating that the book will be a good deal more balanced than his first effort. I didn’t say that he is the consummate Lewis-basher. I said that there are passages in his book that come across as if he were a consummate Lewis-basher. Just to mention two, at one point he calls Lewis’s thinking “considerably worse than fuzzy,” and at another accuses him of “irresponsible writing.” I think he was writing a book to bring out a critical perspective on Lewis that had been lacking in previous writings, and ended up saying things that were taken both by Lewis fans and Lewis enemies to show that Lewis was a second-rate thinker. I think that his revised edition will show this was a misunderstanding of his position, although I will have to admit that it is a misunderstanding which I shared. He will still argue that Lewis’s apologetics don’t work, but I am anticipating that the book will be a good deal more balanced than his first effort.

]]> by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2588 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:20:01 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2588 <blockquote>Heretic.</blockquote> Ooh, it's on!! No, actually I'm interested to see what Dr. B has to say but don't expect him to radically alter my views. That said, though, by myself I've come upon a couple of places where I don't think Lewis was clinging to the strongest plank on the boat. I don't think it's bad for me to take stock every now and then. ;) As for Narnia, I started with both Narnia and Tolkien at roughly the same age and so got them both embedded in my wee little consciousness before I had a chance to develop much of a critical faculty ... so I still love Narnia. It's <i>The Great Divorce</i> that makes me cry nowadays, though. Mike, I saw Shadowlands as part of the course, actually, but I could do to watch it again with more grown-up eyes. :)

Heretic.

Ooh, it’s on!!

No, actually I’m interested to see what Dr. B has to say but don’t expect him to radically alter my views. That said, though, by myself I’ve come upon a couple of places where I don’t think Lewis was clinging to the strongest plank on the boat. I don’t think it’s bad for me to take stock every now and then. ;) As for Narnia, I started with both Narnia and Tolkien at roughly the same age and so got them both embedded in my wee little consciousness before I had a chance to develop much of a critical faculty … so I still love Narnia. It’s The Great Divorce that makes me cry nowadays, though.

Mike, I saw Shadowlands as part of the course, actually, but I could do to watch it again with more grown-up eyes. :)

]]> by: See-Dubya http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2585 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:52:30 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2585 Big Lewis fan, although surprisingly I never got into Narnia. Once you've had Tolkien, you never go back. I'm still pretty much in the be-all, end-all camp regarding his other stuff. Heretic. Big Lewis fan, although surprisingly I never got into Narnia. Once you’ve had Tolkien, you never go back.

I’m still pretty much in the be-all, end-all camp regarding his other stuff.

Heretic.

]]> by: Mike Lief http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2581 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:58:30 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/12/05/any-lewis-fans-in-the-crowd/#comment-2581 I first read Lewis when my uncle gave me a box set of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" back in the mid-70s. The books were enthralling, even if I didn't "get" the Christian subtext as a young Jewish lad. Have you seen <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108101/" rel="nofollow">Shadowlands</a>, the film starring Anthony Hopkins as Lewis? His speech, wherein he tearfully recounts his relationship with G-d in the aftermath of a great personal tragedy is beautifully done, and the portrayal of a late-in-life romance for the dedicated bachelor-scholar was deeply moving, even for non-romance film guys like me. I first read Lewis when my uncle gave me a box set of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” back in the mid-70s.

The books were enthralling, even if I didn’t “get” the Christian subtext as a young Jewish lad.

Have you seen Shadowlands, the film starring Anthony Hopkins as Lewis? His speech, wherein he tearfully recounts his relationship with G-d in the aftermath of a great personal tragedy is beautifully done, and the portrayal of a late-in-life romance for the dedicated bachelor-scholar was deeply moving, even for non-romance film guys like me.

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