内容简介
A journey through the ecclesiastical year with Christianitys
most eloquent and inspiring spokesman. A potent anthology (Los
Angeles Times). Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
作者简介
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963),
commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends as
Jack, was a Northern Irish academic, medievalist, literary critic,
essayist, and Christian apologist. He is also known for his
fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia
and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R.
Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Both authors were
leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in
the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings".
According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised
in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith
during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other
friends, at about the age of 30, Lewis re-converted to
Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of
England" (Lewis 1952, p. 6). His conversion had a profound effect
on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of
Christianity brought him wide acclaim. Later in his life he married
the American writer Joy Gresham, who died of bone cancer four years
later at the age of 45. Lewis's works have been translated into
more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies over the
years. The books that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia have sold
the most and have been popularized on stage, in TV, in radio, and
in cinema.