That hideous strength by cs lewis7/6/2023 ![]() This scenario comes vividly and ironically to mind as I prepare to teach an online course for Memoria College on “The Adult Fiction of C. ![]() ![]() Lewis estate objected to this title, necessitating the alternative title that the volume was finally given. I had originally intended the title to be “Narnia for Grown-Ups” as a way of showing that the deep theological and other thematic elements of the Narnia stories illustrated that they were for adults, not solely for children. Several years ago I wrote a book on The Chronicles of Narnia, which was published by TAN Books with the title Further Up and Further In: Understanding Narnia. Lewis teaches this priceless lesson, the learning of which is necessary if adults want to become grown-ups. In his adult fiction, as in his children’s fiction and his non-fiction, C.S. It is only by freeing ourselves from our possessiveness of others that we can avoid being possessed by the false “loves” that keep us from True Love. ![]()
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