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C. S. Lewis as Philosopher
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
2024
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Most devotees of C. S. Lewis are surprised to learn that the first course he taught at Oxford University was not a class in literature, but in philosophy. Of course, Lewis is widely hailed as a great literary critic, but he was also, by training and profession, a first-rate philosophical thinker. His rational and imaginative powers combined to make him who he was, whether he was penning novels or poems, teaching, doing apologetics, or generating nonfiction. C. S. Lewis as Philosopher aims to show this to be so by exploring a range of investigations that captivated his attention while honing his skills. Topics range from reflections about the transcendentals; the argument from reason; the Lord-Liar-Lunatic argument; his philosophical case for natural law in Abolition of Man; emotional doubt; true myth; the problem of evil; moral goodness; the nature of belief; the problem of hell; hedonism; aesthetic theodicy; mathematical elegance; sacramental metaphysics; the power of imagination; the argument from desire; driving questions of epistemology; to his arguably greatest philosophical novel of Till We Have Faces. This third edition has four additions, written by the likes of Phil Tallon, Michael Ward, Reno Lauro, and Louis Markos. You don’t want to miss this intellectual feast!

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Authors

David Baggett
Author · 7 books
David Baggett (PhD, Wayne State University) is professor of philosophy in the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is the coauthor of Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning, and At the Bend of the River Grand. He is the editor of Did the Resurrection Happen? and the coeditor of C.S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty; The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes; and Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts.
Jerry L. Walls
Jerry L. Walls
Author · 10 books
Jerry L. Walls (PhD, University of Notre Dame), a world-class expert on the afterlife and a sought-after speaker, has written for Christianity Today, First Things, and Christian Century. He has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and in the documentary film Hellbound? Walls, professor of philosophy and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas, is the coauthor of Why I Am Not a Calvinist and the Christianity Today Book Award Winner Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality. He has authored or edited a dozen books, including a trilogy on the afterlife—Hell: The Logic of Damnation, Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation, and Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy—and is a senior speaking fellow for the Morris Institute for Human Values.
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