The C. S. Lewis Index: A Comprehensive Guide To Lewis's Writings and Ideas ebook

by Janine Goffar

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What began as Janine Goffar's years-long personal project in hand-written notebooks has grown to this comprehensive, much-endorsed volume for all Lewis scholars and fans

What began as Janine Goffar's years-long personal project in hand-written notebooks has grown to this comprehensive, much-endorsed volume for all Lewis scholars and fans. She is an active member of the Southern California .

Goffar, Janine, ed. The . Lewis Index: a Comprehensive Guide to Lewis’s Writings and Ideas. New York: Macmillan, 1940. Surprised by Joy. Harvest Books, 1966. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1995. Hinton, Marvin D. and Bruce L. Edwards. William T. Kirkpatrick.

The C. S. Lewis Index: A Comprehensive Guide To Lewis's Writings and Ideas. This book is a valued accet to my collection of all things Lewis, and though I already knew a great deal about him I am learing more. C. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet. Covering subjecets as broad as his love of George MacDonald's Phantastes, his friendship with . Tolkien, or his views on spiritual longing, Colin Duriez helps us to see inside the mind of the greatest author of all time. 8 people found this helpful.

Published by Crossway Books (1998). ISBN 10: 0891079807 ISBN 13: 9780891079804.

A comprehensive guide to Lewis's writings and ideas. This labor of love by Janine Goffar indexes topics from . Lewis's major works, allowing the reader to trace a half-remembered quote to its source or to track Lewis's thinking on the multitude of subjects he addressed during his illustrious career.

As far as Lewis's own works are concerned, this is the most important book to be published since he died. George Sayer, Author of "Jack: A Life of . Lewis " Janine Goffar's "Index to Lewis's theological works is one of the most useful books that has ever appeared on Lewis. -Walter Hooper, Literary Advisor to the Estate of . Lewis " Whether one is trying for the first time to find out what my stepfather wrote about a particular topic, or whether one is having difficulty remembering the exact place of a passage read previously, the ". Lewis Index will prove invaluable.

Goffar, Janine, The C. Lewis Index: A Comprehensive Guide to Lewis’s Writings and Ideas, Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1995. Essentially a concordance of Lewis's works. Hooper, Walter, C. Lewis: A Companion & Guide, San Francisco: Harper San Franciso, 1996. Includes a short biography, an analysis of most of Lewis's books, a Who's Who, and other helpful information.

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

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A comprehensive guide to Lewis's writings and ideas.

Arlana

I can't imagine doing research on C. S. Lewis without this book. Sure, you could google, flip pages, or take a look through "The Quotable Lewis," but this index delivers exactly what it promises: a comprehensive guide to Lewis's writings and ideas. This is the Lewis scholar's secret weapon. This is the tool you need in order to stop haggling and nitpicking and speculating and--finally!-- actually find out what Lewis himself said about it. Indispensable.

Diana Pavlac Glyer is the author of The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community

BOND

Mr. Merkel finds that Goffar takes "academic liberty" in applying some of Lewis's words to topics that he did not address. So far as it goes, this is a perfectly legitimate concern. He further believes that this constitutes the "propogation of a personal agenda", which is an interesting position given the quotes which she has selected under this heading.
It is, I think, a mis-reading of the Index to imply that all seven entries under "abortion" suggest that Lewis would have supported a pro-abortion position. Certainly some of the entries make such a suggestion (or at least lean in that direction), but others suggest the opposite (the references to God's view that birth is important, that death is an evil, that many sins also harm others and should thus be illegal).
In my view, all but one of the entries under the heading of Abortion were reasonably placed. They do not directly address the topic, and Goffar makes that very clear, both by the ** notation, and by parenthetical references to what Lewis _was_ writing about. The reader would never get the idea that Lewis had been actually writing about abortion, but does see some ideas of Lewis's that may shed light on the abortion controversy, which is the value of such entries.
On a topic about which Lewis wrote in volume, such as the nature of Christ, there is no need to extrapolate his ideas. On a topic about which he did not write at all, however, such extrapolation gives an idea as to how he might see the issue, or general concerns which might apply to one position or another.
As a final note, should the reader wish to read only those remarks of Lewis which directly address the topic at hand, this is easily done, as the others are conspicuously marked. No "close inspection" is required.

Sermak Light

As an indivual who likes to read and quote C.S. Lewis, I have often thought about tackling the task that Janine Goffar has accomplished with this volume. Organized alphabecially, like a concordance, usually with a brief quote on the topic at hand, the reader is referred to one or more works by Lewis where the subject is covered in more detail. This volume would be a welcome addition to the collection of any serious reader (or quoter) of the theological works of Lewis, who introduced many to the concept of "mere Christianity."

Dozilkree

I am deeply disappointed with Janine Goffar's index of C.S. Lewis's writing. On the very first page of this book, Goffar catalogs seven entries under the specific topic of "abortion" suggesting that C.S. Lewis would support a pro-choice position.
Upon closer inspection, we determine that Ms. Goffar takes academic liberty in applying the "ideas" of C.S. Lewis to topics that he did not even address. This is not scholarship, it is simply the propagation of a personal agenda under the cover of scholarship. A thoughtful reading of "The Abolition of Man" might have obviated such an extrapolation against Lewis's ideas.
In spiking this book with her own agenda, Ms. Goffar has been unjust to Lewis and the student who buys it. After reading page one of this book, I had learned much about Ms. Goffar, and very little about C.S. Lewis. As an index this book may be useful, but for a summary of Lewis's ideas buy his books, and not this one.

Gigafish

I got this a long time ago and it's an excellent reference.