C.S. Lewis, Beauty, and the Experience of Story
by Alexandra Harper Great writing is not merely a matter of knowledge, clever ideas, or technical brilliance. These elements illuminate, but only as stars in light of the vast universe. Precise technique is capable of delivering a cold performance absent of the power to transform. Transformation, that is, transfiguration, is the offspring of beauty, the Mona Lisa smile of storytelling, elusive yet captivating. Whatever the genre or...
“The Parson’s Tale”: Chaucer’s Defense of Christian Marriage
by Jared Austin During the month of September 2014, the Helwys Society Forum is exploring literary figures and themes in the Great Tradition. In subsequent articles, we’ll consider George MacDonald, T.S. Eliot, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis. But in this article, we’re considering Geoffrey Chaucer’s defense of Christian marriage. Christian marriage is under attack in America. As American culture becomes increasingly secular, what seem...
Book Review: Resounding Truth
by M. Grady Calhoun Music is everywhere. It has infiltrated almost every culture, especially modern Western culture, from all sides. One scarcely enters a coffee shop, mall, airport, or arena where music isn’t belted from a sound system. Music is present to help manage our moods for whatever everyday task with which we find ourselves engaged. It so surrounds us that we often forget its presence. This may leave us wondering: “How is...
Reflections on Inspiration and Interpretation: The Implications of Inspiration for Interpretation (Part Two)
by Matthew McAffee In Part One of this essay, we introduced the nature of Scripture as dually-authored. In this essay, we will explore this further, commenting on how it is both divinely given and humanly written. We will also identify more specific ways in which our view of inspiration informs our attention to interpretation. The Significance of Scripture as Dually-Authored for Interpretation How does the nature of Scripture relate...
Reflections on Inspiration and Interpretation: The Nature of Inspiration (Part One)
by Matthew McAffee In the following two-part essay, I would like to entertain the connection between one’s view of biblical inspiration on the one hand, and one’s approach to biblical interpretation on the other. In Part One we will provide a brief assessment of what God has revealed to us in Scripture about the nature of these writings. In Part Two, we will explore a few of the implications that arise from biblical inspiration that...
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