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"""So much has already been written about Lewis, so many aspects of his life and work so thoroughly explored, that one might think that The Undiscovered Lewis would necessarily be a slim volume! Nothing could be further from the truth. These fascinating essays not only include many new discoveries and fresh insights into his life and work, but also map out a trajectory for future studies. In doing so they honor the insights of Chris Mitchell to whose memory they are dedicated, and who had himself, in a celebrated lecture, suggested the structure and topography followed in this volume. In that sense, though it is admirably edited by Bruce Johnson, it is in many respects Mitchell's book. And there is more. As Diana Glyer points out in her excellent essay on ""The Algebra of Friendship,"" friends bring out and augment what is latent in one another. These eighteen essays by friends of Chris Mitchell are themselves a testament to how much his friendship and influence augmented their insights into Lewis. Now happily, the fruits of that fine combination of scholarship and friendship are available to augment our understanding too."" Malcolm Guite, author of Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination"

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So much has already been written about Lewis, so many aspects of his life and work so thoroughly explored, that one might think that The Undiscovered Lewis would necessarily be a slim volume! Nothing could be further from the truth. These fascinating essays not only include many new discoveries and fresh insights into his life and work, but also map out a trajectory for future studies. In doing so they honor the insights of Chris Mitchell to whose memory they are dedicated, and who had himself, in a celebrated paper, suggested the structure and topography followed in this volume. In that sense, though it is admirably edited by Bruce Johnson, it is in many respects Mitchell's book. And there is more. As Diana Glyer points out in her excellent essay on The Algebra of Friendship, friends bring out and augment what is latent in one another. These essays by friends of Chris Mitchell are themselves a testament to how much his friendship and influence augmented their insights into Lewis. Now happily, the fruits of that fine combination of scholarship and friendship are available to augment our understanding too. Malcolm Guite, author of Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination The Undiscovered C. S. Lewis is a splendid banquet convening many of the leading Lewis scholars of our time, a fitting tribute to the wholehearted Lewis explorer Christopher Mitchell, and a sure proof that to discover the undiscovered C. S. Lewis is also to be richly educated in the great tradition of Christian literary and imaginative culture from Dante and Bunyan to Coleridge and Dorothy L. Sayers. An indispensable resource for all who wish to deepen their knowledge of Lewis and to follow along on the interlacing intellectual and spiritual paths he traversed. Carol Zaleski, co-author with Philip Zaleski of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams Carefully researched and lucidly written, these accessible, engaging essays fill in a number of gaps in Lewis studies, drawing out a more nuanced view of the author, his influences, his friendships, his critical reception, and his historical moment. They make for a fine tribute to a man who devoted two decades of his life to overseeing the world's best collection of Lewis's letters and manuscripts. Louis Markos, author of On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis. The knowledge and personality of Christopher Mitchell must have been engaging, intellectually stimulating, and multifaceted if this volume of essays is in any way a just tribute to him. Truth be told, for those of us who knew Chris, those words in the previous sentence describe him well. Read this collection and enjoy a feast of information and encouragement by watching various Lewis scholars uncover so much more than we ever thought possible to know about C. S. Lewis, and, in the process, learn a bit more about Chris Mitchell. Joel Heck, author of Irrigating Deserts: C. S. Lewis on Education and No Ordinary People: 21 Friendships of C.S. Lewis

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(D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary) Bruce is the General Editor of Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal and Associate Pastor at Mountain View Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. He has written on Lewis for VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center, The Journal of Inklings Studies, CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, and Sehnsucht, as well as contributing a chapter for C. S. Lewis's Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos (2013). The focus of his current research is the work of C. S. Lewis with the Royal Air Force Chaplains' Branch during World War II. (Ph.D., University of St Andrews) Michael is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, Texas. He is the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2008) and After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man (Word On Fire Academic, 2021). He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and C. S. Lewis at Poets' Corner (Wipf and Stock, 2016). (M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Walter was born on 27 March 1931, a native of North Carolina. Following a decade's correspondence with C. S. Lewis, he became his personal secretary in 1963. After Lewis's death that year on 22 November, he began in Oxford, England his life's work, editing Lewis's unpublished fiction, poetry, and essays. Hooper also produced many important scholarly works on Lewis, including C. S. Lewis: A Biography;(with Roger Lancelyn Green, 1974), Past Watchful Dragons: The Narnian Chronicles of C. S. Lewis(1979), C. S. Lewis. A Companion and Guide(1996), and The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, 3 vols. (2004-7). He died on 7 2020.

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