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The ransom trilogy5/9/2023 But I would venture to suggest that the power of their work is not unrelated to their choice of fantasy as a literary form. Lewis certainly shows that he is a master communicator in any genre or form that he chooses (as Steven Beebe argues convincingly in C.S. Tolkien and Lewis are in the lead, undoubtedly, because they are such outstanding writers of imaginative literature: creative geniuses who, we might say, happened to choose fantasy as their preferred form. But in my own admittedly anecdotal (albeit extensive) experience of which books are most often mentioned as being significant in readers’ journeys of faith, the pre-eminence of fantasy is notable. To be sure, the works of other authors loom large in the landscape-Flannery O’Connor’s stories and novels, as one very notable example. Which books are most powerful, most evocative, most engaging for the work of evangelizing through literature? If we survey the landscape of modern literature with that question in mind, certain works of fiction form their own mountain range: Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles and Ransom Trilogy George MacDonald’s Phantastes.
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