Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal PDF Print E-mail

color sehnsucht small2PURPOSE: Sehnsucht exists to promote literary, theological, philosophical, historical, biographical, and cultural interest (broadly defined) in Lewis and his work.

SCOPE: The journal will include articles, book reviews, film critiques, editorials, and announcements of Lewis-related conferences, events, and publications and is aimed at academic scholars from a variety of disciplines as well as learned non-scholars.

FORMAT: One or two issues per year, 75–100 pages (or approximately 25,000–30,000 words), printed and bound.

PRICE: $20 annually; students $10; institutions $30.

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Volume 3, Number 1, 2009
Contents:

General Editor’s Note, GRAYSON CARTER/De Descriptione Temporum: Revisiting C. S. Lewis’ Inaugural Lecture, Jean Bethge Elshtain/C. S. Lewis and C. E. M. Joad, Joel Heck/What C. S. Lewis Really Did to “Cupid and Psyche”, Charles Huttar/The Lore of Wood and Stone, Louis Markos/Why Father Christmas Appears in Narnia, P. H. Brazier/C. S. Lewis’ Aesthetics, Adam Barkman/ Review Essays--Sanford Schwartz’ C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier, Sørina Higgins/John Beversluis’ C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion, Victor Reppert/Poetry—Hints, Scott Schuleit/Play Review--The Screwtape Letters, José Maria J. Yulo/Interview with Walter Hooper, Mark Neal/ Book Review--Michael Travers(ed.), C. S. Lewis Views From Wake Forest, David G. Clark/James Como’s Why I Believe in Narnia: 33 Reviews & Essays on the Life & Works of C. S. Lewis, James P. Helfers/Harry Lee Poe and James Ray Veneman’s The Inklings of Oxford, Grayson Carter/Laura Miller’s The Magician’s Book: A Skeptics Adventures in Narnia, D. G. Kehl/Gary L. Tandy’s The Rhetoric of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’ Nonfiction Prose, James T. Como/David Clark’s C. S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology, Gregory M. Anderson/Andrew Walker and Luke Bretherton (eds.), Remembering Our Future. Explorations in Deep Church, P. H. Brazier/Matthew Dickerson and David O’Hara’s The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis, Charles Huttar/Jerry Root’s C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil: An Investigation of a Pervasive Theme, Bruce R. Johnson/Sean Connolly’s, Inklings of Heaven. C. S. Lewis and Eschatology, P. H. Brazier/C.S. Lewis: Internet Links

Volume 2, Number 1, 2008
Contents:

General Editor’s Note, GRAYSON CARTER/Diversity in Times of Adversity: Sounding a Horn in Narnia, D. G. KEHL/Toward a Narnian Valuation of Nature: Participatory Ontology, JEFF SELLARS/Beyond Personality: Recollections of C. S. Lewis, GRAYSON CARTER, ed./Bibliography--C. S. Lewis: Literary Criticism and Critical Theory, A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, JAMES P. HELFERS/Review Essays--Michael Ward's Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, SØRINA HIGGINS (Literature), CHARLES W. CONNELL (History)/Book Reviews--Peter J. Schakel's Is Your Lord Large Enough?, MARK J. HAMILTON/C. S. Lewis and E. M. W. Tillyard's The Personal Heresy: A Controversy, new edition, BRUCE R. JOHNSON/Film Review--A Pretty Good War Movie (Prince Caspian), ROBERT K. JOHNSTON/Poetry--The World’s Last Night, D. S. MARTIN/The Great Divorce, D. S. MARTIN/ Exhibition Review--The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition, BRUCE R. JOHNSON

Volume 1, Number 1, 2007
Contents:

Editor’s Note, GRAYSON CARTER/Reflections of an Editor, WALTER HOOPER/A Time for Joy: The Ancestry and Apologetic Force of C. S. Lewis’ Sehnsucht, JAMES P. HELFERS/Reading the Middle Ages: The “Postmodern” Medievalism of C. S. Lewis, CHARLES W. CONNELL/Grooving a Symbol: Turkish Delight in Narnia, D. G. KEHL/Defending the Dangerous Idea: An Update on C. S. Lewis’ Argument from Reason, VICTOR REPPERT/All My Dogs Before Me, BRUCE R. JOHNSON/Review Essay--Louis Markos' Lewis Agonistes, WILLIAM GENTRUP