Video from Truth Unites
"C.S. Lewis regarded Till We Have Faces as his best book. Yet it is one of his least appreciated, even among his fans. Here I share a little bit about the themes of the novel, and why I love it so much. Truth Unites is a mixture of apologetics and theology, with an irenic focus. Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai." from video introduction.
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Review: ‘Till We Have Faces’ by C. S. Lewis
“You have seen the torches grow pale when men open the shutters and broad summer morning shines in?”
Good news is really good only when the original news is really bad.
I realized this again while recently re-reading C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces. I had read it 30 years ago in college and missed its depth. As a literature major, I kept fretting with the mechanics of the metaphor. I caught the intellectual point, but my heart was unmoved.
But several years ago, I picked it up again, this time reading it in one sitting on a plane flight. I had learned of a sudden and tragic event in a close friend’s life just a few days earlier. On this reading of Lewis’s novel, I was in no mood for academic exercises. I just wanted some authentic light in a dark moment.
On this reading of Lewis’s novel, I was in no mood for academic exercises. I just wanted some authentic light in a dark moment.
Till We Have Faces is the last novel Lewis wrote, published in 1956. It was written with the input of his wife, Joy Davidman, who later that year discovered she had bone cancer. She would be dead by 1960. Lewis would be dead by 1963... from the article:
"Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold" by C.S. Lewis (link)
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