Into the Region of Awe
Mysticism In C.S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis, by his own estimation, was not a mystic. The forthright admission of this fact is not enough to stop David C. Downing, professor of English at Elizabethtown College and author of two very useful works on Lewis, Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy and The M......more

The chapters on Narnia and the Ransom Trilogy are worth the cost of the book! Consistently annoyed with the choice to use unnumbered endnotes for citations…......more

Great book. I hold C.S. Lewis in such high regard that I've taken to believing that his ideas sprang straight from his massive intellect and fell perfectly polished onto the page for the page. This author dug into the roots of Jack's ideas, actually seeing the passages he underlined and the evolutio......more

I came across this title in one of my readings last year, and since I am a big fan of C.S. Lewis’ books, I thought I’d check it out. In Into the Region of Awe, Downing challenges the modern mantra that mysticism and sound doctrine cannot coexist. What better way to do that than to use C. S. Lewis as......more

This is an excellent book I didn’t even know I wanted until it landed on my desk as a hand-me-down. It was a challenging read. Mysticism is by nature hard to explain. In order to help us understand, Downing first helps define mysticism as a “direct experience of God, immediate as a taste or color.”......more