Articles and Chapters on C.S. Lewis

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Below is a list of articles or chapters by philosophers on C.S. Lewis or the Inklings:

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  • Almeida, Mike. “C.S. Lewis Is Great, But You Should Be Reading Alvin Plantinga.” The Critique, 2015, 1–13.
  • Christopher, Janaway. “On the Very Idea of ‘Justifying Suffering.’” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 48, no. 2 (2017): 152–70.
  • Davis, Stephen T. “The Mad/Bad/God Trilemma: A Reply to Daniel Howard-Snyder.” Faith and Philosophy 21, no. 4 (November 1, 2004). https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil200421438.
  • ———. “Was Jesus Mad, Bad, or God?” In The Incarnation, edited by Daniel Kendall, S.J., Stephen T. Davis, Gerald O’Collins, S.J., 221–45. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • DePoe, John M. “The Self-Defeat of Naturalism: A Critical Comparison of Alvin Plantinga and C. S. Lewis.” Christian Scholar’s Review 44, no. 1 (2014): 9–26.
  • Devries. “Andrew Linzey and C. S. Lewis’s Theology of Animals.” Journal of Animal Ethics 3, no. 1 (2013): 25.
  • Dumsday. “C. S. Lewis on the Problem of Divine Hiddenness.” Anglican Theological Review 97, no. 1 (2015): 33–51.
  • Ellis, Fiona. “Insatiable Desire.” Philosophy 88, no. 2 (2013): 243–65.
  • Flew, Antony. “C.S. Lewis, God and Evil.” Philosophy Now 26 (2000): 28–29.
  • Frise, Matthew. “The Mad, Bad, or God Argument Explained.” Religious Studies 49 (2013): 581–89.
  • Goicoechea, David. “The Fourfold Loves of C.S. Lewis and Benedict XVI.” Philosophy Now 85 (2011): 13–16.
  • Holyer, Robert. “The Argument from Desire.” Faith and Philosophy 5 (January 1, 1988): 61–71.
  • Howard-Snyder, Daniel. “Was Jesus Mad, Bad, or God? …Or Merely Mistaken?” Faith and Philosophy 21, no. 4 (October 2004): 456–78.
  • Larmer, Robert. “C. S. Lewis’s Critique of Hume’s ‘on Miracles.’” Faith and Philosophy 25, no. 2 (2008): 154–71.
  • Lepojärvi, Jason. “Does Eros Seek Happiness? A Critical Analysis of C. S. Lewis’s Reply to Anders Nygren.” Neue Zeitschrift Für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 53, no. 2 (2011): 208–24.
  • ———. “Worship, Veneration, and Idolatry: Observations from C. S. Lewis.” Religious Studies 51, no. 4 (2015): 543–62.
  • Letwin, Shirley Robin. “Romantic Love and Christianity.” Philosophy 52, no. 200 (1977): 131–45.
  • Linzey, A. “C. S. Lewis’s Theology of Animals.” Anglican Theological Review, no. 1 (1998): 60.
  • McGavock, Karen L. “Agents of Reform?: Children’s Literature and Philosophy.” Philosophia 35, no. 2 (2007): 129–43.
  • Meynell, Hugo. “An Attack on C.S. Lewis.” Faith and Philosophy 8, no. 3 (1991): 305–16.
  • Morris, Thomas V. “C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion.” Faith and Philosophy 5, no. 3 (1988): 319–22.
  • Natsoulas, Thomas. “Consciousness and Conscience.” Journal of Mind and Behavior 21, no. 4 (2000): 327–52.
  • Nelson, Mark T. “Redeeming the Time.” The Personalist Forum 11, no. 1 (1995): 17–32.
  • ———. “Temporal Wholes and the Problem of Evil.” Religious Studies 29, no. 3 (1993): 313–24.
  • O’Hara, David L. “C.S. Lewis as Philosopher.” Faith and Philosophy 28, no. 1 (2011): 112–15.
  • Pelser, Adam. “Irrigating Deserts: Thinking with C.S. Lewis about Educating for Emotional Formation.” Christian Scholar’s Review 44, no. 1 (2014): 27–43.
  • ———. “The Abolition of Man Today.” Christian Research Institute. Accessed June 27, 2018. http://www.equip.org/broadcast/abolition-man-today/.
  • Petrik, James M. “In Defense of C.s. Lewis’s Analysis of God’s Goodness.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 36, no. 1 (1994): 45–56.
  • Potts, Michael. “C. S. Lewis, Aquinas’s Theory of Habituation, and the Fall.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 71 (1997): 151–62.
  • Reppert, Victor. “Reply to Parsons and Lippard on the Argument from Reason.” Philo 3, no. 1 (2000): 76–89.
  • ———. “The Argument from Reason.” Philo 2, no. 1 (1999): 33–45.
  • ———. “The Lewis-Anscombe Controversy: A Discussion of the Issues.” Christian Scholar’s Review 19, no. 1 (1989): 32–48.
  • Rickabaugh, Brandon, and Todd Buras. “The Argument from Reason, and Mental Causal Drainage: A Reply to van Inwagen.” Philosophia Christi 19, no. 2 (2017): 381–99.
  • Seachris, Joshua, and Linda Zagzebski. “Weighing Evils: The C. S. Lewis Approach.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 62, no. 2 (September 17, 2007): 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-007-9133-x.
  • Shutte, Augustine. “The Refutation of Determinism.” Philosophy 59, no. 230 (1984): 481–89.
  • Talbott, Thomas. “C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Evil.” Christian Scholar’s Review 17, no. 1 (1987): 36–51.
  • Taliaferro, Charles. “A Narnian Theory of the Atonement.” Scottish Journal of Theology 41, no. 1 (1988): 75–92.
  • Tollefsen, Olaf. “C. S. Lewis on Evaluative Judgments of Literature.” Modern Schoolman 56, no. 4 (1979): 356–63.
  • Inwagen, Peter van. “C. S. Lewis’s Argument Against Naturalism.” Res Philosophica 90, no. 1 (2013): 113–24.
  • Walls, Jerry L. “C. S. Lewis and the Prospect of Mere Purgatory.” In Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation, 153–76. Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Wolterstorff, Nicholas. “C. S. Lewis on the Problem of Suffering.” Res Philosophica 90, no. 1 (2013): 33–48.

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