C. S. Lewis: A Life
“You can’t get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C. S. Lewis to Walter Hooper—reported in Hooper’s preface to the Lewis […]
“You can’t get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C. S. Lewis to Walter Hooper—reported in Hooper’s preface to the Lewis […]
Like so many other readers of Ward’s magnum opus, I have found in Planet Narnia a great work of literary criticism, an account of Lewis’s works that sends me back […]
“We must extend the word Reason to include what our ancestors called Practical Reason and confess that judgements such as society ought to be preserved . . . are […]
We muddle through this world tempest-tossed, Beleaguered by distractions here below, And fearing we can’t find the way; we’re lost Unless, until, and if a word can show A […]
In an issue honoring a remarkable scholar, I have been asked to do two things: honor Michael Ward and tell how he and Apologetics came together at Houston Baptist University. […]
You may be surprised, as I was, to learn that Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia thesis is controversial. You may, like me, have needed little “proof” beyond the Jove stanza […]
How well her name an Army doth present In whom the Lord of Hosts did pitch his tent. Ana- {Mary/Army} gram, George Herbert “To arms! To arms, Telmar!” […]
The “Nova Effect” of the Planet Narnia Thesis[1] With mainstream media attention, a BBC documentary, star-studded podcasts and interviews, and a constellation of books and resources, is there a […]
Salvation as Illuminated by the Planetary Imagery in The Chronicles of Narnia Like most fairy tales, The Chronicles of Narnia are salvation stories. As the parables of Jesus […]
Before 2008, many of us had read C.S. Lewis’s works, including his fiction, his apologetics, his works of literary criticism, and even his personal letters. Yet none of us made […]