Reply #36: CSLewis and Tolkien are MAJOR icons in the evangelical community [View All]

[bobbieinok]

they're the subject of courses, workshops, books

Lewis and Tolkien were members of the Inklings

http://personal.bgsu.edu/~edwards/lewis.html

Admirers, students, and critical readers of C. S. Lewis and the Inklings, sit down, prop up your feet, and stay a while! This site's purpose is to provide key information, original scholarship, and other links to hypertextual resources about these writers and their literary "kin." Its center is "Jack" Lewis, but it also attempts to provide connections to other Inklings resources, that group of Anglo/Irish writers and friends who met as a community of like-minded thinkers and readers to create some of the 20th Century's best fantasy literature and Christian apologetics.

Lewis wrote 2 of the 20th centuries best Christian classics, The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity.

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/screwtape_letters.asp

A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging and humorous account of temptation -- and triumph over it -- ever written.

(have you ever read this? you might enjoy it)