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Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis

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, 2012
ISBN: 9780830859382

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More and more in our modern and postmodern culture the twin concepts of beauty and truth have been separated both from each other and from their individual connection to the divine source of Beauty and Truth. Even as our public schools move further and further away from their connection to the universal moral code, the world of art (both high and low) embraces an aesthetic that privileges ugliness over beauty, nihilism over form, and radical self-expression over the pursuit of higher truth. As both an effective apologist for truth-based education and as a sub-creator of his own beauty-enhancing fiction, C.S. Lewis is the ideal guide for those who would seek to restore truth and beauty to their proper place and role in our modern world. Sections one and two analyze Lewis’ eleven novels, showing how Lewis counters the growing cult of the ugly and helps restore a clearer understanding of the nature of good and evil. Sections three and four turn to Lewis’ non-fiction works to assess what advice Lewis can give educators at all levels who would steer their students away from chronological snobbery and values-free education toward a true re-engagement with the past. The book concludes with a commentary on Screwtape Letters that exposes what Satan’s main temptation tactics have been since the 1960s and a detailed bibliographical essay of books by and about Lewis.

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  • Title : Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis
  • Author: Markos, Louis
  • Publisher: IVP Books
  • Publication Date: 2012
  • ISBN: 9780830859382
Louis Markos

Louis Markos (PhD, University of Michigan) is professor in English and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University, where he holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. His 27 books include The Myth Made FactFrom Plato to ChristFrom Achilles to ChristAncient Voices: An Insider’s Look at Classical GreeceHeaven and HellApologetics for the 21st CenturyAtheism on Trial; and Passing the Torch: An Apology for Classical Christian Education. He has published over 300 essays and given over 300 public lectures. He is committed to the concept of the professor as public educator. He has two grown children and lives in Houston, Texas.

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