Don W. King

A Hebraic Inkling

Theology

“A Hebraic Inkling is the first book-length study focusing upon Lewis’s understanding of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture. In addition to offering a comprehensive view of Lewis’s theological understanding of God’s selection of the Hebrews as his chosen people, Brazier deftly demonstrates the personal influence Joy Davidman had upon Lewis’s mature understanding of Jewish culture, ideas, and traditions. Well-researched, erudite, and articulate, A Hebraic Inkling is a welcomed addition to Lewis scholarship.”

Becoming C. S. Lewis

History & Biography

“Harry Lee Poe’s Becoming C. S. Lewis breaks new ground in the study of Lewis’s life. Specifically, Poe concentrates on the early years of Lewis’s life—an area largely neglected or glossed over by other biographers—and explores in rich detail the people, ideas, and experiences that shaped Lewis’s adult life. Mining the fertile cache of material available in the Lewis Papers—the eleven-volume archive compiled by Lewis’s brother, Warren—Poe offers convincing arguments about how Lewis’s earliest interests find expression in his adult writings. The themes found later in Lewis’s magisterial works had their inception in Lewis’s youthful writings, particularly in his lifelong correspondence with his boyhood friend Arthur Greeves. Readers intent on obtaining a deeper understanding of the most important Christian writer of the last hundred years will find Becoming C. S. Lewis a welcomed treasure trove.”

Mary Pondered, Sarah Laughed

Arts & Literature

“Thomas Vaughan’s Mary Pondered, Sarah Laughed continues the excellence of his Swimming in the Lake of Fire and The Earth beneath Lynching Trees. This new collection peers attentively into the world of the Spirit, inspired by literary sources ranging from the Bible to Gerard Manly Hopkins to Marcel Proust to C. S. Lewis to Elizabeth Sewell. Readers will be provoked to examine themselves more deeply and to reflect feelingly upon the mysteries of the world about them.”

Splendour in the Dark

Arts & Literature

“Splendour in the Dark is an important new work on the narrative poem Lewis wrote before his conversion to Christianity. In addition to printing the complete text of the poem, the highlight of the volume is three commentary chapters by Lewis scholar Jerry Root and the response to each chapter by a different reader of Dymer. Root's intimate knowledge of the Lewis corpus is everywhere present, and his essential argument that by knowing Dymer readers will recognize many important themes of Lewis's postconversion writings is compelling.”

Swimming in the Lake of Fire

Arts & Literature

“Swimming in the Lake of Fire is a collection of lyric poems that explore, probe, and challenge a range of human experiences from love to grief, from loss to attainment, and from faith to doubt. Thomas Vaughan is a poet of subtle insight and piercing vision.”

The Making of C. S. Lewis

History & Biography

“Hal Poe’s The Making of C. S. Lewis is the much anticipated second installment of Poe’s comprehensive biography of the foremost Christian apologist of the twentieth century. Much as he did in Becoming C. S. Lewis, Poe draws on multiple primary and secondary sources in order to offer an articulate and informed reading of Lewis’s life from 1918 to 1945. Of particular significance is Poe’s exploration of how Lewis’s conversion impacted his writings after 1933 through World War II.”