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C.S. Lewis: A Profile in Faith

edited by Joel S. Woodruff, Ed.D.

& Thomas A. Tarrants, III, D.Min.

 Published by the C.S. Lewis Institute

http://www.cslewisinstitute.org 

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Part I: Lewis’s Life and Faith:

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!"#$%&' ;* +"& !/3% /. !010 ,&2-3<3 =-%>&33, by Dr. Christopher Mitchell

!"#$%&' 9* +"& ?&>&'/@3 A&#'% /. !0 10 ,&2-3, by Dr. Joel S. Woodruff 

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!"#$%&' E* !0 10 ,&2-3 %"& FG#>H&I-3% , by Dr. Philip G. Ryken

Part II: Lewis’s Thought and Teaching:

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Part III: Lewis’s Family & Friends:

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Part I: Lewis's Life and Faith

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This article is based on Lyle W. Dorsett’s biography of Joy Davidman: And God Came In

(Macmillan, 1983) and a revision of that book titled A Love Observed: Joy Davidman’s

Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis (Northwind, 1998), as well as the author’s oral history

interviews housed at the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.

 Dorsett’s book on Joy Davidman is available in audio format as Surprised By Love: The

Life of Joy Davidman: Her Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis  (Hovel Audio)

www.hovelaudio.com.

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•  Biography: Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers, by Alzina Stone Dale

•  Essay Compilations: Creed or Chaos or The Whimsical Christian; play: The Man Born

to be King 

•  Non-fiction: The Mind of the Maker (with an introduction by Madeline L’Engle)

• Detective Stories: The Nine Tailors (1934) was regarded by mystery writer H.R.F. Keating

(1987) as among the 100 best crime and mystery books ever published. There is a Dorothy

 Sayers Society in England (www.sayers.org.uk), and the Marion Wade Center at Wheaton

College has many of her papers and letters.

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