Journey into Narnia - Softcover

Kathryn Ann Lindskoog

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932727891 ISBN 13: 9780932727893

Publisher: Hope Publishing House, 1997

Synopsis

Renowned C. S. Lewis scholar Kathryn Lindskoog has here expanded and updated her classic study of Lewis’s Narnia series originally titled, “The Lion of Judah in Never-Never Land: The Theology of C.S. Lewis Expressed in his fantasies for Children.” Now with the addition of a study guide, including a look at the chronological order of the series of the seven books, the “Journey into Narnia” is filled with abundant and fresh new background information that not only puts the series in its context but explains many of the English terms unfamiliar to the American reader.
Ms. Lindskoog provides many Biblical parallels which illumine the plot. These concise insights and applications are designed for personal reading pleasure as well as being practical helpers for teachers, parents and ministers.
When C. S. Lewis read the first draft of this manuscript, he commented, “You are in the center of the target everywhere. For one thing, you know my work better than anyone else I’ve met; certainly better than I do myself.... You (alone of the critics I’ve met) realize the connection or even the unity of all the books–scholarly, fantastic, theological–and make me appear a single author, not a man who impersonates half a dozen authors, which is what I seem to most. This wins really very high marks indeed.”
This important text of Lewis scholarship has been copied, widely used but never surpassed.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Journey into Narnia includes Kathryn Lindskoog's classic "Lion of Judah in Never-Never Land" and her brand new "Exploring the Narnian Chronicles." The pair provide a wealth of information and ideas, as well as personal reading pleasure. C.S. Lewis, in a handwritten letter: [The Lion of Judah in Never-Never Land] arrived yesterday and I read it at once. You are in the centre of the target everywhere. For one thing, you know my work better than anyone I've met: certainly better than I do myself." Edmund Fuller, in The Wall Street Journal. "An excellent exposition of the sinewy theology that underlies the Narnia tales." Colin Manlove, in The Chronicles of Narnia: "Lindskoog's success is in enriching and deepening our understanding of the implications of the Narnia stories.... She shows how the books are part of a far larger fabric of imagery and idea.... It is small wonder that C.S. Lewis valued this book." Kathryn Lindskoog is a first-generation C.S. Lewis specialist who has studied his writing since 1954. She went to Oxford to meet Lewis in 1956 and has published six books about him since then, including C.S. Lewis: Mere Christian and Light in the Shadowlands. She has taught writing and literature in several institutions, including Fuller Theological Seminary and Biola University. She lives in Orange, California and since 1989 produces a quarterly newsletter called The Lewis Legacy.

About the Author:

Kathryn Lindskoog is a first-generation C. S. Lewis specialist who has studied his writing since 1954. She went to Oxford to meet Lewis in 1956 and has published eight books about him since then, including “Light in the Shadowlands” and “C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian.” She has taught writing and literature in several institutions, including Fuller Theological Seminary and Biola University. For almost two decades she produced a quarterly newsletter called “The Lewis Legacy”.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hope Publishing House
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0932727891
• ISBN 13: 9780932727893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256