C.S. Lewis and the Church Essays in Honour of Walter Hooper

C.S. Lewis, himself a layperson in the Church of England, has exercised an unprecedentedly wide influence on the faithful of Anglican, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and other churches, all of whom tend naturally to claim him as 'one of their own'. One of the reasons for this diverse appropriation is the elusiveness of the church—in the sense both of his own denomination and of the wider subject of ecclesiology—in Lewis' writings. The essays contained in this volume critically examine the place, character and role of the Church in Lewis' life. The result is a detailed and scintillating picture of the interactions of one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century theology with the contemporaneous development of the Church of England, with key concepts in ecclesiology, and with interdenominational matters.

Dr Judith Wolfe is a Fellow in Theology at St John'sCollege in the University of Oxford. She has written widely on the interfacesbetween theology, philosophy and literature. She is General Editor of the Journal of InklingsStudies.

Brendan Wolfe is a past President and Secretary of the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society and Executive Editor of the Journal of Inklings Studies (formerly the C.S. Lewis Chronicle). A DPhil candidate in Late Antique studies and historical linguistics at the University of Oxford, he is a regular contributor to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and co-editor of two forthcoming volumes on C.S. Lewis.

Table of ContentsAndrew Cuneo, 'Introduction: Oxford, 1963, and a Young Boswell'1. THE CHURCH IN LEWIS' LIFEMark Edwards, 'C.S. Lewis and Early Christian Literature' Jonathan Herapath,' "You Must Throw Yourself in": C.S. Lewis and the Victorian Literary Church' Francis Warner, 'Lewis' Involvement in the Revision of the Psalter'2. THE CHURCH IN LEWIS' WRITINGSMichael Ward, 'The Church in C.S. Lewis' Fiction'James Como, 'C. S. Lewis' Quantum Church: an Uneasy Meditation'Judith Wolfe, 'C.S. Lewis and the Eschatological Church'Brendan Wolfe ,'Lewis and the Sacraments' 3. LEWIS AND THE CHURCHES Ian Ker, ' "Mere Christianity" and Catholicism'Kallistos Ware, 'C.S. Lewis, an "Anonymous Orthodox"?' Chris Mitchell, 'Lewis and Historic Evangelicalism'Philip Ryken, 'Lewis as the Patron Saint of American Evangelicalism'