C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis, better known as C. S. Lewis (Belfast, 29 november 1898 – 22 november Oxford, 1963) was a British born in Ireland, literary writerand Christianapologist.



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[hide] *1 Introduction  ==Introduction[ Edit] == Lewis, also known as Jack Lewis called by intimates, was best known for his by the Christianity-inspired books, both fiction and apologetic and philosophical discourses.One of his most famous works is The Screwtape Letters (English title: letters from hell) in 1942, in which he tries to warn Christians in an original way for the geloofsondermijnende work of the Devil. Yet Lewis still remained more known for his children's books about Narniathe magical land, where he has finished processing the same message. These books are well known in English-speaking countries and are, partly due to the various film versions of it, read frequent in non-Dutch-speaking countries. ==Biography[ Edit] == ===Youth[ Edit] === Lewis was born in the North of Ireland and British was also known as Irishman but his ancestors came from Wales. His father was the first of the family who could go to College and was a lawyer. His mother was a daughter of an Anglican vicar. During his youth las Lewis much and together with his three years older brother Warren Hamilton (Warnie) he wrote several fantasy stories at a young age with home-made illustrations. As a child he found his name not pretty and soon he called himself Jack. Warnie and the rest of Clive's friends have always called him. He had a happy childhood until his mother died of cancer. A month later he had to go to a boarding school (Wynyard School) in England. When he was ten years old. In his autobiography, Surprised by Joy (1955) he writes about the Loveless and intellectually deadening environment at these schools. In The Silver Chair (1953, one of the seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia) refer to this undisguised episode from his life. ===Study time and war[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In september 1914, when the first world war just started was, he took up residence at a private teacher, William t. Kirkpatrick. Here he had the very good to his liking. Led by Kirkpatrick he prepared himself for the competition with which he in 1916 a scholarship to the University of Oxford acquired. His studies there began a long break because he went into military service. This he did voluntary; the conscription did not apply for Irish.
 * 2 Biography
 * 2.1 Youth
 * 2.2 study time and war
 * 2.3 Christian writer and teacher
 * 2.4 Second World War
 * 2.5 later years and death
 * 3 Views
 * 4 Bibliography
 * 4.1 Space Trilogy
 * 4.2 the Chronicles of Narnia
 * 4.3 Other
 * 4.4 anthology
 * 4.5 Journal
 * 5 Movies
 * 6 see also
 * 7 external link

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Northern France, near Arras, in april 1918 he became injured. Because he could no longer fight, he was allowed home. After the war he resumed his studies in Oxford. He studied there with honors in classical philosophy and the classical languages, English language and literature. Afterwards he taught at the University until 1954. ===Christian writer and teacher<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After he was hit after his happy childhood alienated by the Christianity, began a process of religious reorientation. Partly as a result of conversations with colleagues such as j. r. r. Tolkien faithful and Hugo Dyson, he converted to Christianity. He later described this process in Surprised by Joy (1955). Tolkien regretted that his friend is not as he returned to the Catholic faith, but returned to his roots and there in the AnglicanHigh Church-faction are accommodations found. Found in his later works, however, are elements that are connected with Catholicism, such as the distinction between mortal and venial sins. In his apologetic writings Lewis tried to avoid choosing a certain theological direction. As well as Tolkien and Dyson was Lewis in Oxford Member of the Inklings.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">He was from 1925 as fellow and tutor at the to Magdalen College Oxford.

<p lang="en" len="147" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">His first book, Spirits in Bondage (1919) was a poetry book, and his second book was a lengthy narrative poem: Dymer (1926).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1938 he published his hand a science fiction story, Out of the Silent Planet, in 1943 followed by Perelandra (also released under the title Voyage to Venus) and in 1945 by That Hideous Strength. These three books are together called the Space Trilogy or Ransom trilogy, after the protagonist of the first two parts. They are also released under the title Space Trilogy. ===Second World War<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">He became known to the general public when he during the Second World War a number of philosophical and religious lectures at the BBC gave. From the many positive reactions from listeners turned out that Lewis in the difficult war years many people encourage put out. Some of these lectures were later subsumed under the title Mere Christianity (1952). In 1942 he wrote his first public success, The Screwtape Letters(letters from hell), which had nine printings in the first year and a year later the same success in the United States. ===Later years and death<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1950 The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe, the (to chronology) second part of the Chronicles of Narnia the seven that he had written. This children's books are probably the most sold, most read and most translated books by c. s. Lewis.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">He worked until 1954 in Oxford. Then he was appointed to the University of Cambridge on a special Chair set up for him for English literature of the middle ages and Renaissance. Important scientific publications include The allegory of love (1936), English litterature in the sixteenth century (excluding drama) (1954) and ''The discarded image. An introduction to medieval and renaissance litterature'' (posthumous, 1964).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1956, he married the American Joy Davidman Gresham, a divorced woman of Jewish descent and former Communist, who are under the influence of Lewis ' books had converted to Christianity. They had many years of correspondence maintained beforehand and they met only just before their marriage. It was already ill when he married her and died four years later of cancer. About the difficult period hereinafter referred to as Lewis wrote these notes he gave his thoughts on., under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk, as the book A grief observed (1961) out, in Netherlands issued as Grief, death and faith. Only after his death was announced that he was the writer. The work is still widely used in Christian bereavement.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">C.S. Lewis died on the same day the American president John f. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, namely november 22, 1963. On that day also died the British-American writer Aldous Huxley. The Christian writer Peter Kreeft has the book Between heaven and hell <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  written, about the hypothetical meeting between these three celebrities after their death in a kind of afterlife. Here they discuss the person of Christ. C. s. Lewis was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church in his hometown of Headington, near Oxford. ==Views<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lewis fought the scientism philosophy and faith in progress, who expects all questions and problems can be solved by the natural sciences . He was not a young earth creationist explicit but tended more to a Godled by evolution (theistic evolution). ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lewis wrote a lot. Of all his work that appeared in English, is about forty percent in the Dutch translation. ===Space trilogy<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===The Chronicles of Narnia<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Chronicles of Narnia Lewis wrote not in chronological order. These are the seven books as they later are classified:
 * 1938 - Novels, far from the silent planet
 * 1943 - Perelandra, journey to Venus
 * 1945 - Thulcandra, the inner circle

===Other<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Anthology<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Journal<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Movies<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">C.S. Lewis was not really an advocate of film of his books. He expected that the movies to fake out there would see allowing the ' magic ' of the books would disappear. Also you will not own more than encouraged to use your own imagination.
 * 1955 - the magician's nephew
 * 1950 - the lion, the Witch and the wardrobe
 * 1954 - the horse and his boy
 * 1951 - Prince Caspian
 * 1952 - the voyage of the Dawn Treader
 * 1953 - The Silver Chair
 * 1956 - the last fight
 * The curve and the straight path (The Pilgrim's Regress, 1933; semi-autobiographical allegory), ISBN 9051942850
 * The problem of suffering (The Problem of Pain, 1940), ISBN 9025947492
 * Letters from hell (The Screwtape letters, 1942), ISBN 9043505455
 * The abolition of man (The Abolition of Man, 1943), ISBN 9043505285
 * The large separation (The Great Divorce, 1946), ISBN 9025947891
 * My tutor (George Macdonald: An Anthology, 1946), ISBN 9789051944327
 * Miracles (Miracles, 1947), ISBN 9051941021
 * Transposition and other speeches (Transposition and other addresses, 1949), ISBN 9051941986
 * Mere Christianity (Mere Christianity, 1952), ISBN 9043505242
 * Surprised by Joy (Surprised by Joy, 1955; autobiography), ISBN 9051941803
 * The true face (Till We Have Faces, 1956; novel), ISBN 9051941587
 * Thoughts on the Psalms (Reflections on the Psalms, 1958), ISBN 9051942427
 * The four loves (The Four Loves, 1960), ISBN 9051940815
 * Grief, death and faith (A Grief Observed, 1961, personal notes after the death of his wife), ISBN 9051940289
 * Letters to Malcolm about prayer (Letters to Malcolm, 1964), ISBN 9051940238
 * Varensporen and elephants (Christian Reflections, 1967; essays), ISBN 9043513164
 * Letters to Mary Willis (Letters to an American Lady, 1967), ISBN 9024261791
 * Stubborn conviction (esays Screwtape Proposes a Toastfrom the bundles, 1965, and Fern-seed and Elephants, 1975), ISBN 9789051943702
 * With reason believe, ISBN 9043511048
 * Celestial matters (The Business of Heaven, ed. Walter Hooper), ISBN 9043509892, appeared for year 2007

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the wardrobe ' is filmed in 2005 under the title 'The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe'. Disney has taken the film adaptation. Also they have filmed the book 'Prince Caspian'. This film went on 15 May 2008 in world premiere. The last book is made into a film, so far is 'the voyage of the Dawn Treader'. This film went on 8 december 2010. The voyage of the Dawn Treader is the first film in this series which Disney has taken on the film adaptation not; they saw no future in the film the Chronicles of Narnia. 20th Century Fox saw this success still and took therefore the responsibility for the film adaptation in itself.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some parts of the Chronicles of Narnia are filmed by the BBC as a television series and broadcast. Although the quality, in part due to the budgets, leave much to be desired is the storyline closer to C. S. Lewis's books than the Disney film versions.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1993, released the movie Shadowlands . This film is about the life of C.S. Lewis, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. Most of this film is about his meeting and living with Joy Davidman.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There is a documentary released In 2008, entitled C. S. Lewis: the creator of Narnia, which is also about the life of C.S. Lewis goes. It tells ' Lewis ' itself over its life.