Schedule
Mon-Thu, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (1/14/2025 - 5/9/2025) Location: MAIN MG 232
Mon-Thu, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (1/14/2025 - 5/9/2025) Location: MAIN MG 232
Description
Here's your chance to step through the wardrobe into the magical land of Narnia, fly to the planets Mars and Venus, and take a bus ride from purgatory to heaven, all journeys courteous of the rich imagination of Christian novelist and essayist C. S. Lewis. In these linked courses, we will learn of Lewis’ life, his place with British letters (including the authors who were his greatest inspirations), his development as a person of faith, his writings as a popular theologian, and his fictional worlds beyond The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
REL 268 C. S. Lewis
With releases of film versions of the Chronicles of Narnia, new generations of fans have been coming to appreciate the dramatic fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis. But the legacy of this writer involves far more than the magical lands visited through the wardrobe. Hence, this course explores C. S. Lewis’ life, his development as a person of faith, his writings as a popular theologian, and his science fiction, fantasti