
S6E15 – AH – “C.S. Lewis on Scripture”, After Hours with Dr. Michael J. Christensen
Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast
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Lewis's Approach to Literary Criticism
Lewis's approach to the Holy Scriptures is like that of all good literature: Genre counts. He wants poetry to be read as poetry, proverbs to be proverbs and stories to be stories. Lewis viewed the gospel text as fairly reliable history; they're not myth or allegorical but reliable sources for what happened when Jesus walked the earth.
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