The Undiscovered C. S.?Lewis: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Mitchell

"So much has already been written about Lewis, so many aspects of his life and work so thoroughly explored, that one might think that The Undiscovered Lewis would necessarily be a slim volume! Nothing could be further from the truth. These fascinating essays not only include many new discoveries and fresh insights into his life and work, but also map out a trajectory for future studies. In doing so they honor the insights of Chris Mitchell to whose memory they are dedicated, and who had himself, in a celebrated lecture, suggested the structure and topography followed in this volume. In that sense, though it is admirably edited by Bruce Johnson, it is in many respects Mitchell's book. And there is more. As Diana Glyer points out in her excellent essay on "The Algebra of Friendship," friends bring out and augment what is latent in one another. These eighteen essays by friends of Chris Mitchell are themselves a testament to how much his friendship and influence augmented their insights into Lewis. Now happily, the fruits of that fine combination of scholarship and friendship are available to augment our understanding too."

Malcolm Guite, author of Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination

(D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary) Bruce is the General Editor of Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal and Associate Pastor at Mountain View Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. He has written on Lewis for VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center, The Journal of Inklings Studies, CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, and Sehnsucht, as well as contributing a chapter for C. S. Lewis's Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos (2013). The focus of his current research is the work of C. S. Lewis with the Royal Air Force Chaplains' Branch during World War II.

(Ph.D., University of St Andrews) Michael is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, Texas. He is the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2008) and After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man (Word On Fire Academic, 2021). He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and C. S. Lewis at Poets' Corner (Wipf and Stock, 2016).

(M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Walter was born on 27 March 1931, a native of North Carolina. Following a decade's correspondence with C. S. Lewis, he became his personal secretary in 1963. After Lewis's death that year on 22 November, he began in Oxford, England his life's work, editing Lewis's unpublished fiction, poetry, and essays. Hooper also produced many important scholarly works on Lewis, including C. S. Lewis: A Biography;(with Roger Lancelyn Green, 1974), Past Watchful Dragons: The Narnian Chronicles of C. S. Lewis(1979), C. S. Lewis. A Companion and Guide(1996), and The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, 3 vols. (2004-7). He died on 7 2020.