![]() ![]() Plus… well, it is kind of obvious: the image of the Lion ends up being pretty important to Lewis later in life. You have to ask: What caused that great shift? Instead of a career as a public academic and literary controversialist, Lewis becomes a storyteller and faith-sharer. He writes a SciFi thriller, Out of the Silent Planet(1938) and begins working on his first books defending Christianity to the general public. It is at this point, though, that Lewis takes an abrupt shift in direction. ![]() Moreover, Lewis discovers the Lion at a key point in his life: his academic career is building with the release of The Allegory of Love (1936) and his continual work on The Personal Heresy (1939). I know that Williams had a great influence upon Lewis, and I am determined to find out how deep that influence really is. I came to Charles Williams’ The Place of the Lion because of my work in C.S. My question in this blog is what role it played in Lewis’ own fiction writing. ![]() Lewis had ever encountered, and it was transformational for him. This was the first Williams book that C.S. A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of being a guest blogger for The Oddest Inkling in a series on Charles Williams’ The Place of the Lion. ![]()
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