12
Mar

How “Real” is “Fantasy” Art?

   Posted by: cslewisfoundation   in Arts and Culture, Books and Film, C.S. Lewis

An interesting debate has started between two authors on the internet about the nature of Art and whether fantasy literature qualifies.

The first article, fromThe New Atlantis, features an argument by James Bowman about the nature of realism and fantasy in art, and why he does not consider fantasy art — the genre of choice for Lewis and Tolkien — to be “real” art.

Avatar and the Flight from Reality.

In The American Culture, Daniel Crandall responds in defense of fantasy.  Click the link below for his response:

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien Are Not ‘Real’ Artists?

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8
Mar

A Word of Grace - March 8, 2010

   Posted by: cslewisfoundation   in A Word of Grace, Devotional

Please note that the content and viewpoints of Mr. Hansen are his own and are not necessarily those of the C.S. Lewis Foundation. We have not edited his writing in any substantial way and have permission from him to post his content.

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Dear Friends:

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water” (Jn 4:10).

This is a great and beautiful statement about prayer from the One in whom every one of God’s promises is a “yes” (2 Cor 1:20).

Jesus answered her, a Samaritan woman, who never thought a Jewish male would speak to her, let alone the Son of God.

In suspicion and self-protection she has asked, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jn 4:9).

She doesn’t know who he is, that’s an unfolding mystery, but he has, in one sentence, breached her defenses with the first wave of grace. She has come to a spring for a pitcher of water. He is about to immerse her in the ocean of God’s love.

Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your cataracts;
all your waves and your billows have gone over me.
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
(Ps 42:7-8)

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5
Mar

Winter at the Kilns, 2010

   Posted by: cslewisfoundation   in C.S. Lewis, General, The Kilns

Here are a few pictures of C.S. Lewis’s house as it looked this winter.

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