Article Title
St. Jerome's Narnia: Transformation and Asceticism in the Desert and Beyond the Wardrobe
Abstract
Compares “two exercises in Christian myth-making”—C.S. Lewis’s Narniad and The Life of Paul the Hermit, the earliest work of the ascetic St. Jerome. Both are entertaining, and even whimsical at times, and feature communication with intelligent animals and a restoration of Paradise. Both also feature characters who model the value of asceticism and the solitary contemplative life.
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Gavin, John
(2015)
"St. Jerome's Narnia: Transformation and Asceticism in the Desert and Beyond the Wardrobe,"
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 33
:
No.
2
, Article 10.
Available at:
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol33/iss2/10
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