Index of Subjects
Abolition of Man (Lewis), 131, 133, 134
Acting and preaching, 94–95, 89–99, 145
Allegory of Love, The (Lewis), 115
Author’s biggest fear in writing book, 18
Beauty
and beauteous words, 56–57
saying as a way of seeing, 144–147
Calvinism. See Doctrines of grace,
Christ
seeing and saying beauty of, 9
Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis), 11, 115–116
“The Church-porch” (Herbert), 63, 72
“The Collar” (Herbert), 51–52
Conversion
of Lewis, 124–127
of Whitefield, 95–97
Country Parson, The (Herbert), 9, 45
Doctrines of grace
and George Whitefield, 99–104
revolutionary impulse of, 49–50
“Dulnesse” (Herbert), 60
Edwards, Jonathan
misgivings about Whitefield’s oratory, 89–91
Election
Whitefield humbled by doctrine of, 36–37
“Elegiac Poem” (Wheatley), 36–37, 78, 108, 109–110
“The Elixer” (Herbert), 57–59
Eloquence
marks of good eloquence, 25–26
Paul rejects certain kind of, 22–26
six reasons to pursue ways to express the excellences of Christ, 21–40
“The Flower” (Herbert), 54, 60
“Forerunners” (Herbert), 57, 72
“Frailtie” (Herbert), 68–69
Franklin, Benjamin
stumbling block, 27
“Giddinesse” (Herbert), 53
God
confidence in, 54–55
Herbert, George
Calvinistic reformation spirituality of, 48–56, 65–66, 70
fellowship with Christ through poetic effort, 38–39, 56–62, 70, 73–75
life of, 43–46
nonpoetic poetic effort habits, 70–73
“The Holdfast” (Herbert), 54–55, 72
“Impenitence” (Lewis), 137
“Josephs Coat” (Herbert), 61
Last Battle, The (Lewis), 118
Lewis, C. S.
conversion of, 124–127
“magisterial humility,” 37
and imaginative literature, 136–139
defective views, 116–119
the Rationalist, 130–134
the Romantic, 124–130
Life of God in the Soul of Man (Scougal), 96
Life of Mr George Herbert (Walton), 45
Links between the three Swans, 9, 11–12, 39–40, 116–117
Literary devices
Bible filled with every manner of, 31
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 136
“Love (III)” (Herbert), 63–66
“Meditation 17” (Donne), 13
Mere Christianity (Lewis), 122–123, 126
Middlemarch (Eliot), 31
Miracles (Lewis), 138–139, 146
“Nature” (Herbert), 54
On Eloquence (Donoghue), 22
“On Stories” (Lewis), 112, 136
“The Pearl” (Herbert), 67
Perelandra (Lewis), 115
Phantastes (MacDonald), 115
Philo and Paul among the Sophists (Winter), 23
Pilgrim’s Regress, The (Lewis), 115, 124–125, 129, 130, 131, 136
Poetic effort
collecting proverbs as, 70–71
definition of, 17
does the Bible warrant? 17–40
helpful for seeing, 38–39
importance of using words, 20
inspired by God, 28–35
of loving music, 72–73
modest proposal, 70
not in vain, 63–65
and pride, 35–38
relationship to salvation, 19–20
saying as a way of seeing, 17–18, 38–39, 61–62, 73–74, 91
of Scripture, 29–30
Power
natural and spiritual, 85–87
Protestants
earliest, 48
“Praise (II)” (Herbert), 62, 67, 70
“Prayer (I)” (Herbert), 75, 76
Problem of Pain, The (Lewis), 118, 119, 121, 128, 129
“Providence” (Herbert), 55, 59–60, 72
“The Pulley” (Herbert), 68
“The Quidditie” (Herbert), 38–39, 42, 61–62, 76, 145
Screwtape Letters (Lewis), 115
Slavery
George Whitefield, 104–8
Surprised by Joy (Lewis), 115, 125–126, 127, 128, 129, 133
Swans, explanation of series, 9, 149
“The Temper (I)” (Herbert), 57
Temple, The (Herbert), 46–47, 52, 56, 57, 64
Till We Have Faces (Lewis), 128
Weight of Glory, The (Lewis), 127, 129
Whitefield, George,
conversion of, 95–97
elegiac poem on death of, 78, 109–110
and slavery, 104–8