For anyone familiar with Lewis, seeing the newness of God’s creation runs deep. When it captures us, it’s landing on a new shore; it’s walking from inside a wardrobe and pushing out into belief, to imagine what is from what truly is. For Lewis, imagination is attached to faith, is …
Read MoreC. S. Lewis was deeply interested in heaven. In his nonfiction prose he frequently discussed the nature of heaven (and, less frequently, the nature of hell) and explained how to take part in it. In his works of fiction he created several striking descriptions of what heaven (and, in less …
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Peter Schakel’s new book, Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God (InterVarsity Press, 2008), is about image. “We can know people only through mental images,” he says in the opening pages. Is this more true about a God who we haven’t seen than …
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