"The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis" by Jason M. Baxter. A Review (original) (raw)

Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought: An Introduction - By Alexander Samely

Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2008

ISBN 0-232-52676-1), 246 pp., pb £12.95 James Alison, a British Roman Catholic priest and theologian, is known primarily for two preoccupations. First, he appropriates theologically the insights of René Girard on violence and mimetic rivalry, making them available to a broader, nonspecialist audience. Second, he is gay and has worked for full inclusion of gays and lesbians in Catholicism, a move which has been rather costly for him, relegating him to 'the long-term unemployed' as he puts it (p. 13). He returns to these two concerns in this, his most recent work.

Undergoing God: Dispatches from the Scene of a Break-in - By James Alison

Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2008

ISBN 0-232-52676-1), 246 pp., pb £12.95 James Alison, a British Roman Catholic priest and theologian, is known primarily for two preoccupations. First, he appropriates theologically the insights of René Girard on violence and mimetic rivalry, making them available to a broader, nonspecialist audience. Second, he is gay and has worked for full inclusion of gays and lesbians in Catholicism, a move which has been rather costly for him, relegating him to 'the long-term unemployed' as he puts it (p. 13). He returns to these two concerns in this, his most recent work.

Pre-Pub Issue of The Lamp-Post A Review of Lewis Studies 36.4/37.1

The Lamp-Post: A Review of Lewis Studies, 2019

The prepublication issue of the Lamp-Post 36.4/37.1. This is a special double issue featuring the essays presented at the first annual Pacific Inklings Festival presented by the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society. Essays by Sorina Higgins, James Prothero, David Bratman, and Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

Celebrating Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse, and More

This long discussion of Elizabeth Goudge's prize-winning children's novel The Little White Horse (1946) is mainly based on three articles I wrote about the novel, and about Goudge as an author. Because The Little White Horse is, in my opinion, such a good book, and because Goudge is often misunderstood as a writerfor children and for adultseven though many other commentators praise The Little White Horse very highly, I believe my repolished and augmented articles from past decades, may usefully shed light on the novel and on Goudge. I also include brief discussion of the classic illustrations by C. Walter Hodges (to whom Goudge dedicated the novel "with thanks"), with examples, and some by other illustrators. Some attention is also given to an English TV serial and a feature-length film, neither of which capture much of Goudge's unique literary magicor her actual story! This multi-part discussion also includes an article Elizabeth Goudge wrote shortly after winning the Carnegie Medal for The Little White Horse, and two short articles on Goudge and The Little White Horse from the same long-ago 1947 issue of Bookshelf. Also, this article describes Elizabeth Goudge's collection of "little things" which feature in three of her books, and it examines two larger academic studies of Goudge's books. Certainly, it is a long article, with some unavoidable repetition. It may help to think of it as a collection of relatively short essays on Goudge, and some of her books, notably The Little White Horse.