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C. S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces was written and published in the twentieth century when science and reason had begun to discredit faith as irrational. Lewis grew in reputation as a defender of Christianity as eminently reasonable, and many critics look to his last novel as an examination of the interaction between reason and faith. But, as such, in Till We Have Faces – his favorite novel – he was not presenting new arguments in support of faith but rather arguments that had originated in early and medieval Church history. In dream visions like those of Julian of Norwich, dreamers effectively combined faith and reason, destroying modern and medieval ideas of a distinct difference between these two concepts. As a medieval scholar, Lewis drew on this medieval literary convention in Till We Have Faces to effectively convey his proof for reason’s claim on faith. For Lewis and medieval dreamers, faith and reason were never to be considered separately or in conflict but rather as continually in unison. |
