{"id":89,"date":"2013-12-17T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:16:35","slug":"why-does-lewis-persist-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Why does Lewis persist today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">In the Atlantic today (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/12\/why-cs-lewis-never-goes-out-of-style\/282351\/\">here<\/a>), Aaron Cline Hanbury attempts to account for Lewis&#8217; persistence in contemporary thought, literary and otherwise. \u00a0He writes,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/images.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/images.jpg?w=747&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">This vision for a Christian lens to the world permeates Lewis\u2019s stories, because, for him, the best stories hinted at the deep structures of reality, helping humanity in the journey for truth and significance. Good stories point to an ultimate story. And as Farrer\u2014but few else\u2014might have predicted, Lewis appears more relevant today than ever.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">Truth and significance, yes, but much more than that. The tru<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">th and significance has a particular sense in Lewis&#8217;s storytelling; it is particularly Christian, nested in the gospel of Jesus Christ and its particular way of redeeming the world. \u00a0Surely, the allegory of Narnia begs interpretation, but with such interpretation one shouldn&#8217;t rush past the gospel to the more abstract terms of truth and significance.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">Hanbury ends well, citing Aldous Huxley and John Kennedy who both died on the same day as Lewis.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">Huxley once wrote that \u201cthe prophet must make a selection of the facts that are more significant, that will have the greatest effect on the greatest number of future human beings.\u201d And Kennedy famously said that a \u201cman may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">And that\u2019s why, in 1963, Lewis left us a legacy with influence that reaches far beyond 1960s England: He wedded significant facts with ideas that live on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">\u00a0The rest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/12\/why-cs-lewis-never-goes-out-of-style\/282351\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Atlantic today (here), Aaron Cline Hanbury attempts to account for Lewis&#8217; persistence in contemporary thought, literary and otherwise. \u00a0He writes, This \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=89\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/images.jpg?fit=187%2C270&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-1r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}