false 3121550 2 In these lectures you will cover Lewiss spiritual autobiography and other creative works, as well as his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology. Professor Louis Markos is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has won teaching awards at both the University of Michigan and Houston Baptist University. He presents this course as a sympathetic, deeply felt exposition of Lewiss multifaceted thought and works, making no secret of the fact that he is a longtime and enthusiastic fan of Lewiss writings. Because so much of his life was reflected in his works, to understand C. S. Lewis the writer it is essential to know C. S. Lewis as a man and literary figure. Professor Markos has crafted his course to focus in the first six lectures on Lewiss personal convictions and thought, concentrating on his nonfiction works. In covering Surprised by Joy and The Pilgrims Regress, Professer Markos argues that Lewiss "real" biography is the story of his spiritual pilgrimage. Why did he see his movement toward Christianity in terms of joy and desire? How did this influence his apologetics? "If you wish to take Lewiss works seriously, you must accept them as creations of passionate thinking: of the spiritual brought down to the physical, of experience carried up into reason." Lewiss Tales: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Allegory In Lectures 7 through 11, we turn to Lewis the fictional novelist: the unfallen world of Perelandra in the "Space Trilogy" (193845) the beloved "Chronicles of Narnia" (195056) childrens series for which he is perhaps best known Till We Have Faces (1961), a mature and beautiful reworking of the Cupid and Psyche myth whose heroine is patterned after Lewiss wife, Joy. All five of these lectures offer synopses of the key plot elements in each work and explore Christian allegories that lurk just below the surface of each tale. 3152893 2000 Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis CDs - The Teaching Company (The Great Courses) total:9|4:5|3:4| 9 32 12 7 3 0 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 19:15:31 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 04:38:23 -0700 2009
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