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C.S. Lewis and The Doctor

by revgeorge on November 23, 2009

For me, two very important events happened yesterday and today.  Yesterday, November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis died, his death being overshadowed by the assasination of John F. Kennedy.  Aldous Huxley also died that day too.  Lewis is well known for his Chronicles of Narnia books and also for his Christian apologetical works, even giving a series of radio lectures during World War II which would later form the book Mere Christianity.  Among many works, Lewis also wrote science fiction, The Space Trilogy, and also, what I consider to be his best work, Till We Have Faces, a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. [click to continue…]

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New Book: C.S. Lewis & Philosophy as a Way of Life

by Travis Prinzi on July 29, 2009

PhilosophyCover Front OnlyAdam Barkman has written a book which will quickly become essential to C.S. Lewis studies: C.S. Lewis and Philosophy as a Way of Life. A hardcover volume from Zossima Press, over 600 pages in length, it explores C.S. Lewis as philosopher, a realm Lewis studies that needed a work this in-depth, comprehensive, and profound.

David Baggett, a philosopher who’s done work on our favorite boy wizard, calls Barkman’s book a “magisterial work…a sheer delight to read.”

It’s available now at Amazon.com!

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New York C.S. Lewis Society: 40th Anniversary Weekend

by Travis Prinzi on June 12, 2009

lewis-764447The New York C.S. Lewis Society, “the oldest society for the appreciation and discussion of C.S. Lewis in the world,” is hosting a 40th anniversary weekend symposium, with excellent Lewis scholars, August 7-9, 2009.  If you’re near NYC, this is an event you won’t want to miss.  I’m 7 hours away, and I’m trying to figure out how I could manage to make the trip.

View the pdf flyer for the conference.

Great conference and day-pass rates.  You’ll be happy you went.

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BBC Narnia Code with Michael Ward Online

by Travis Prinzi on April 17, 2009

michael_ward_headshotBBC’s special, The Narnia Code, which is about Michael Ward’s excellent work, Planet Narnia, is available online for another 6 days!  I plan to watch it sometime this weekend.  Don’t miss the opportunity!

Johnny did an interview with Michael Ward for The Hog’s Head just prior to the release of the Prince Caspian movie.

Find Michael Ward at his website.

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Mythos and Logos

by Travis Prinzi 03.02.2009

Randy Hoyt has written at length on two types of thinking: mythos and logos. This is a fascinating subject for me, and I’ve begun exploring it recently, most notably in this post at The Rabbit Room and to a lesser extent in this post here.
Randy concludes that mythos and logos are complementary ways of thinking, [...]

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Around the Common Room

by Travis Prinzi 02.03.2009

If you’ve been considering submitting a programming proposal for Azkatraz, now’s the time to do it.  The deadline was extended to Feburary 9.
Michael Ward: A Look at C.S. Lewis’s Poetry
A book discussion of some of Lewis’s Narnia books has begun at Leaky.
Speaking of Leaky, if you’re the social networking type, they’ve begun a large-scale, Facebook-type [...]

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C.S. Lewis Didn’t Have a Hairy Heart

by Travis Prinzi 01.25.2009

“The Warlock’s Hairy Heart” is a tale of dehumanization because of unwillingness to love, for fear of being hurt.  Fear vs. Love the overriding theme of the Harry Potter stories.
I love it when I come across a comment written by someone decades or hundreds of years ago that perfectly describes a newer story I’ve recently [...]

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The Curtain Between Two Worlds

by Travis Prinzi 01.14.2009

Put this into the “I wish I’d read it before writing Chapter 2 of my book” file:
“There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.  And when once people have found the little [...]

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