The study of C. S. Lewis’s interpretations of history is undergoing something of a revival, though more scholarship remains needed. As K. Alan Snyder and Jamin Metcalf have demonstrated in Many Times and Many Places: C. S. Lewis and the Value of History (2023), Lewis had a strong historical sensibility that undergirded his work.
His little-known article on “Historicism” is featured in C. T. McIntire’s Anthology of Modern Christian Views of History (1977), which testifies to the renewal of interest in history amidst the “age of catastrophe” of two world wars and the threat of nuclear Armageddon.
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