This book begins with a very well-deserved tribute to Walter Hooper, without whom so many of Lewis's writings would be lost or in disarray. It continues with essays by eleven distinguished scholars, the first on ‘The Church in Lewis's life’ containing a valuable historical record of his role in the revision of the Psalter by Frances Warner, the second on ‘The Church in Lewis's writings’ with a good many references to his fiction. The third section, ‘Lewis and the Churches’ begins with a strong critique by Ian Ker of Lewis's view in Mere Christianity that there is such a thing as mere Christianity, and that it is to be seen as a hall that leads into a number of different rooms provided by the denominations. As Ker shows, drawing on Newman, the Christian faith and the Church are intertwined from the first, and there are great difficulties in the Protestant notion of a free standing entity, the Christian faith, separable from it. For him ‘Jesus Christ came into this world first and foremost to found a Church’, a view which most New Testament scholars would find rather odd. The result of this view is that for him there is no hall, just one main building, the Roman Catholic Church and a series of annexes or outbuildings. This analogy is in effect undermined by the succeeding essays by Kallistos Ware, who suggests that there are such affinities with Orthodoxy in the thoughts of Lewis that he can be called an ‘anonymous Orthodox’, and by Christopher Mitchell, that there are such affinities with historic Evangelicalism that he can be said to be ‘one with them without being of them’. This suggests that a better analogy than that of either Lewis or Ker is that of a Norman farmhouse rebuilt as a Jacobean gentleman's residence, then again in a Gothic revival style and now lived in by a moderniser, but still retaining important features of all the earlier periods. The great beam still holds up the main living room, the windows retain their Jacobean shape and the turrets on the roof remain. The Christian faith and the Church are inseparably intertwined from the first and form a living tradition. The family that lives in the house now finds much to draw on and enrich its life from all its different features and styles. Yet the house still has a recognisable shape, structure and character. No doubt there are a few annexes and outhouses, but amidst all the failures of the ecumenical movement there has, for most Christians, been a fundamental change of consciousness over the last sixty years. They feel they belong together, in a way that they did not before, somewhere in the same irregularly-shaped house.