C.S. Lewis and the (Extra)ordinary Life

If the well-examined life is worth living, then C.S. Lewis’s must have been extraordinarily worth living, because few lives have been quite so well and thoroughly examined. Even in the midst of a century full of remarkable (and remarkably well-documented) lives, Lewis’s has attracted particular attention, enough to make me a bit skeptical whenever I hear of yet another Lewis biography. Surely all the material has been hashed over by now! So it was with surprise and a little relief that I found that Simon Horobin’s C.S. Lewis’s Oxford not only gives a fresh perspective on Lewis’s life and a reminder of just how unusual that life was, but also offers, however subtly, a vision for our own moral and imaginative flourishing. Read Full Article »


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