Publisher's Synopsis
There is a seeming dichotomy in C.S.'s writing. On the one hand we see the writer of argumentative works, and on the other we have the imaginative poet. Lewis also found this dichotomy within himself. When he was a rationalist and atheist he found these two sides of him were pulling in different directions: he believed that his rationalist side could not be reconciled with his imaginative side. Once he became a Christian, he eventually found a means of marrying the two--principally, through story and myth. Within C. S. Lewis studies, there is also a common conception of Lewis as a modern rationalist philosopher, i.e., a rationalist who thinks arguments are the last answer on the questions he undertakes. Reasoning beyond reason attempts to take this view to task by placing Lewis back into his pre-modern context and showing that his sources and influences are classical ones. In this process Lewis is viewed through the idea that imaginatio
