Description:
David C. Downing explores mysticism as a part of C. S. Lewis's faith and writing. He addresses both the influence on Lewis by mystical writers of his own day and the threads of mysticism evident in Lewis's works.
Brief description:
David C. Downing is the Ralph W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous articles on C. S. Lewis, and his Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy (University of Massachusetts Press) is named one of the five best books yet published on Lewis by the "C. S. Lewis and the Inklings Homepage." His book on C. S. Lewis's journey to faith, The Most Reluctant Convert, was named one of Booklist's Best Religion Books of 2002. It was also a 2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Finalist.
Review Quotes:
. . .a useful introduction for people who wish to explore the mystical side of Christianity.
--Doris T. Myers, An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol 24