Lewis himself, it is safe to say, would have been appalled by all this. Lewis had done on that date, before setting off to work or school with his C.S.

Lewis mug, offer devotion to his Maker in the words of C.S. Lewis calendar, make coffee wearing his C.S.

Lewis sweatshirt, ascertain the date from his C.S. Lewis attended Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on this day in 1939.” Thus the Lewis devotee (and there are many, judging from the sales figures) could, upon rising, don his C.S. For the date I saw (January 5), the entry read: “Warren and C.S. Just out is a book of days called Around the Year with C.S. The Business of Heaven, a recent collection of daily Christian devotional readings, consists entirely of excerpts from the works of Lewis. Lewis: Images of His World, that consists of pictures of the English landscapes that Lewis trod. Lewis aprons, mugs, sweatshirts, and tote bags, the calendar that promises “to bless whatever room it hangs in with a quiet sense of peace,” the coffee-table book, titled C.S. Phillips, who, in his 1967 book The Ring of Truth, blandly reports that a “rosily radiant” Lewis visited him twice in his home shortly after he died and “spoke a few words which were particularly relevant to the difficult circumstances through which I was passing.” But what of the C.S. Nothing rivals the account of the late New Testament translator J.B. In its most extreme form, the continuing popularity of Lewis verges on hagiography. Books in Print also lists 34 books about Lewis, 28 of them dated 1977 or after. Eighty-nine of them, including numerous anthologies of his talks, essays, lay sermons, fiction, poems, and other works, have copyright dates later than Lewis’s death 65 have been published in the last decade. The 1986-87 edition of Books in Print lists an even one hundred entries under Lewis as author. Lewis’s most famous books- Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, his science fiction “space trilogy” (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength), and The Chronicles of Narnia, a seven-volume children’s series-have gone through scores of printings, and even so obscure a work as The Abolition of Man is in its 25th.

Indeed, the opposite is more nearly true: His books now sell around two million copies each year in Great Britain and the United States, six times the number during his lifetime.

Lewis, who made his living as a literary scholar at Oxford and Cambridge but is better known for his apologetic and imaginative works of Christian literature, refuses to wane. Nearly a quarter century after his death on Nov.

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