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Louis Markos analyzes C. S. Lewis's eleven novels and many nonfiction works showing how the twin concepts of beauty and truth continually led Lewis back to God.

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Author:   Louis Markos
Publisher:   InterVarsity Press
Imprint:   Inter-Varsity Press,US
Edition:   Special Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780830857456

ISBN 10:   0830857451
Pages:   215
Publication Date:   10 October 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1 Part I: Restoring Beauty Chapter 1: Fractured Fairy Tales and the Cult of the Ugly Chapter 2: The Space Trilogy I: The Beauty of Hierarchy Chapter 3: The Space Trilogy II: The Beauty of the Normal Chapter 4: Narnia I: The Beauty of Complementarity Chapter 5: Narnia II: The Beauty of Clarity Chapter 6: Narnia III: The Beauty of Light and Truth Chapter 7: Till We Have Faces: The Beauty of Beauty Part II: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Chapter 8: The Nature of Good and Evil Chapter 9: Further Up and Further Down Chapter 10: Heroes and Villains Chapter 11: Courage along the Road Chapter 12: The Heirs of Nietzsche Part III: Men without Chests Chapter 13: Losing the Tao Chapter 14: The Dangers of a Values-Free Education Chapter 15: From Tao-less Students to Tao-less Citizens Chapter 16: The Scientist and the Magician Chapter 17: The Chest-less Tyrant Chapter 18: The Death of Language Part IV: Aslan in the Academy Chapter 19: Restoring the Past Chapter 20: The Renaissance Never Happened Chapter 21: Dinosaurs in the Classroom Chapter 22: Genial Criticism Chapter 23: The Historical Point of View Chapter 24: The Professor as Public Educator Chapter 25: Restoring Virtue Epilogue: Know Thy Enemy Screwtape?s Millennial Toast Lewis on Education and the Arts: A Bibliographical Essay

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Louis Markos holds a BA in English and History from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, where he teaches courses on British Romantic and Victorian Poetry and Prose, the Classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and Film.Dr. Markos holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities and teaches classes on Ancient Greece and Rome for HBU?s Honors College. He is the author of 9 books:From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics, Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age, The Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World like a Romantic Poet, Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World, Apologetics for the 21st Century, Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis, Literature: A Student?s Guide, On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue in Tolkien and Lewis, and Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition.

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