Intriguing take on the C.S. Lewis Bible if only because the New Yorker Book Bench blogger, Elissa Lerner, sees it as a good way for the average reader to get a handle on Lewis’s theology.
Lewis’s position as a converted atheist, fiction writer, and trained scholar renders him a particularly lucid, historically aware, and lively commentator. He likes, for instance, to judge Biblical characters on their merits as literary characters, and throughout his words avoid the artificial quality of some other contemporary spiritual guides—no doubt due, in part, to the fact that these works did not originate as Biblical illumination. As a result, this NSRV edition can survive beyond the Sunday-school classroom or hotel nightstand; the reader walks away with a greater appreciation for Lewis’s oeuvre, and may even pick up a thing or two from the Good Book in the process.
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