Thu 26 Jan 2006
Loren Rosson on the devil in C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra (Satan 6)
Posted by Phil Harland. Categories: History of SatanLoren now has a series of posts (prelude, parts 1, 2, 3) regarding C.S. Lewis’ novel Perelandra, which is set on an “unfallen” planet Venus. The devil plays an important role in the plot and Loren analyzes the “Devil’s argument” in the most recent post. In the novel, Professor Weston is a Faust- or Jabez-like figure who sells his soul to the devil (on which see my previous post). Lewis, who wrote most of his novels from a position advocating Christianity, is also well known for his novel Screwtape Letters, which presents itself as a series of letters from an experienced demon named Screwtape to a younger demon named Wormwood.
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February 15th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Interesting. C.S. Lewis, the author of the Chronicles of Narnia, was one of my favourite authors as a child. He was also a good friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, known for his fantasy fiction The Lord of the Rings. Both were professors at Oxford and members of the same writing group: the Inklings. Although both Christian, they had a number of disagreements over Lewis’s take on writing “popular” theology. Both their works, however, contain interesting satanic figures (e.g. the evil Witch in Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and of course Sauron and Morgoth, both fallen deities, in Tolkien’s stories on Middle Earth).
February 16th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Thanks for that, Patrick. Phil