Doris T. Myers

The Most Reluctant Convert

History & Biography

“Downing has carefully traced the story of Lewis’s conversion as found in both published and unpublished writings. He balances the suddenness of Lewis’s final decision for Christ with the slow maturing of mind and heart within the context of literature, myth, and European Christian tradition. Especially valuable is Downing’s discussion of ‘The Quest of Bleheris,’ one of Lewis’s first attempts to write fiction.”

The Way into Narnia

Arts & Literature

“With his repeated insistence that the Chronicles of Narnia are fairy tales, Schakel provides a welcome counterbalance to commentators who treat them as 'Seven Sunday School Lessons in Search of a Teacher.”