![]() ![]() Chesterton’s Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith, and secondly, Confessions by Augustine – this last, in spite of Lewis’s own objections to the contrary. McGrath begins by investigating the influences that might have contributed to the style and method in which Lewis wrote Surprised by Joy. Thus begins the journey to discern exactly why Surprised by Joy exists, and the impact that it had upon Lewis. For McGrath, Surprised by Joy represents “something of an enigma among Lewis’s works, not least because at first sight it seems to subvert Lewis’s own views on the significance of texts.” Specifically, McGrath argues that “Lewis made his reputation by insisting that … Writers were not themselves a spectacle their texts were rather a set of spectacles through which the world might be viewed.” What then should be made of a book that is, in all respects, a look into the author who wrote the book? ![]()
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