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- Volume 1, Issue 1: The Abolition of Man
- Volume 1, Issue 2: The Power of Story
- Volume 1, Issue 3: Courage, Strength, & Hope
- Volume 1, Issue 4: Celebrating Planet Narnia
- Volume 2, Issue 1: Imagination
- Volume 2, Issue 2: Film & Music
V2I2 (Summer 2019) Film & Music
- Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics.
- Augustine. Confessions.
- Augustine. On Christian Doctrine
- Aperlo, Peter. Watchmen: The Film Companion.
- Adamson, Andrew. director The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- Butt, John. “Bach’s Metaphysics of Music,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bach
- Campbell, Joseph, & Bill Moyers. The Power of Myth
- Campbell, Joseph. Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
- Chaplin, Charlie. Charlie Chaplin’s Own Story.
- Chesterton, G.K. Orthodoxy.
- Cahir, Linda Costanzo. Literature Into Film: Theory and Practical Approaches.
- Corrigan, Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White. The Film Experience: An Introduction.
- Degenhardt, Jane Hwang. Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance On the Early Modern Stage
- Dorsett, Lyle. The Essential C. S. Lewis.
- Edwards, Bruce L., A Rhetoric of Reading: C.S. Lewis’s Defense of Western Literacy
- Edwards, Jonathan. A Jonathan Edwards Reader.
- Eliot, T.S. “The Wasteland” in The Complete Poems and Plays:
- Esolen, Anthony. Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching
- Mark Freshwater, C.S. Lewis and the Truth of Myth
- Foster, Verna. The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy.
- Gianetti, Louis. Understanding Movies.
- Glyer, Diana Pavlac. Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings.
- Godawa, Brian Godawa. Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment. 2nd ed.
- Hibbs, Thomas S. Shows about Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture
- Hume, David. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
- Jackson, Peter. Director, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
- Juvenal. Satires.
- Kenny, Anthony. An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy.
- Kierkegaard, Søren. The Point of View for My Work as an Author: A Report to History.
- Kroon, Richard W. Av a to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms
- L’Engle, Madeleine. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
- Lewis, C.S. The Abolition of Man.
- Lewis, C.S. An Experiment in Criticism.
- Lewis, C.S. The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis Volume I: Family Letters 1905-1931.
- Lewis, C.S. The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy.
- Lewis, C.S. George MacDonald.
- Lewis, C.S. God in the Dock,
- Lewis, C.S. The Great Divorce
- Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed
- Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
- Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity.
- Lewis, C.S. Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories.
- Lewis, C.S. On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature .
- Lewis, C.S. Poems.
- Lewis, C.S. Preface to Paradise Lost.
- Lewis, C.S. That Hideous Strength.
- Lewis, C.S. Till We Have Faces.
- Lewis, C.S. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
- Lewis, C.S. The Weight of Glory.
- Lewis, C.S. Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis.
- Marissen, Michael. “On the Musically Theological in Bach’s Cantatas,” in Bach & God.
- Loftis, J. Robert. in Watchmen and Philosophy.
- Lundin, Roger. Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age.
- McIntyre, Gina, Ernest Cline, and Steven Spielberg. The Art of Ready Player One.
- McLuhan, Marshall and W. Terrence. Gordon, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
- Montemaggi, Vittorio. “Dante’s Commedia and the Comic Art of Roberto Benigni” in Beyond “Life is Beautiful”: Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni.
- Newell, Mike. Director. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Nimoy, Leonard. I Am Spock.
- Oden, Thomas C. Introduction. In Søren Kierkegaard, Parables of Kierkegaard.
- Pascal, Blaise. Pensees.
- Pearcey, Nancy.Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity.
- Plantinga Alvin. God, Freedom, and Evil.
- Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
- Ramis, Harold. Director. Groundhog Day.
- Richmond, Hugh M. Shakespeare’s Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage Context.
- Roth, Robert Paul. The Theater of God: Story in Christian Doctrines.
- Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
- Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Schaeffer, Francis. The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer, Vol. 1.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Presentation: Volume II.
- Shatner, William. Star Trek Memories.
- Snyder, Zack. Director. Watchmen.
- Spielberg, Steven. Director. Ready Player One.
- Taylor, Kevin Taylor and Giles Waller, eds., Christian Theology and Tragedy: Theologians, Tragic Literature and Tragic Theory.
- Tolkien, J.R.R. On Fairy-stories.
- Tolstoy, Leo, What is Art?
- Turow, Joseph. Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication.
- Ward, Michael and Williams, Peter S. ed. C.S. Lewis at Poet’s Corner.
- Ward, Michael. Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis.
- Ward, Michael. Narnia Code.
- Whedon, Joss. Director. Serenity.
- Wise, Robert. Director. Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- Wright, Greg and Jenn. “C.S. Lewis and the Media: Cinematic and Stage Treatments of C.S. Lewis’s Life and Works,” in C.S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy Vol.4: Scholar, Teacher and Public.
- Yuasa, Kyoko. C.S. Lewis and Christian Postmodernism: Word, Image, and Beyond .
- Zacharias, Ravi. Beyond Opinion Living the Faith We Defend.
V2I1 (Spring 2019) Imagination
- Augustine. Confessions.
- Beagle, Peter. The Last Unicorn.
- Birzer, Bradley J. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth.
- Chesterton, G.K. Orthodoxy.
- Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics.
- Guite, Malcom. Faith, Hope, and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination.
- Kreeft, Peter. The Philosophy of Tolkien.
- Lewis, C.S. God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics.
- Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity.
- Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet.
- Lewis, C.S. Selected Literary Essays.
- Lewis, C.S. The Abolition of Man.
- Lewis, C.S. The Discarded Image.
- Macdonald, George. A Dish of Orts, Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakspere.
- MacDonald, George. Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood.
- Markos, Louis. From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics.
- Markos, Louis. Restoring Beauty: The Good, The True, and The Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis.
- Lewis, C.S. On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature.
- Lewis, C.S. Surprised by Joy.
- Ordway, Holly. Apologetics and the Christian Imagination.
- Smith, James K.A. Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works.
- Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age.
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings.
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Tolkien Reader
- Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien on Fairy-Stories.
V1I4 (Advent 2018) Celebrating Planet Narnia
- Bernstein, Richard. Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis.
- Brown, Devin. Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.
- Chesterton, G.K. Orthodoxy.
- Dickieson, Brenton. “A New C.S. Lewis Letter with Details About Narnia.” In Both Sides of the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis, Theological Imagination and Everyday Discipleship.
- Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit.
- Duriez, Colin. A Field Guide to Narnia.
- Ford, Paul F. Companion to Narnia.
- Gableman, Josephine. A Theology of Nonsense.
- Guerber, H. A. Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas.
- Herodotus, The Histories
- Hooper, Walter ed. The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Vol. 3
- Huttar, Charles A. The Long for a Form: Essays on the Fiction of C.S. Lewis.
- Lewis, C.S. The Abolition of Man
- Lewis, C.S. The C.S. Lewis Bible.
- Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia.
- Lewis, C.S. The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis Volume I: Family Letters
- Lewis. C.S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance
- Lewis, C.S. An Experiment in Criticism.
- Lewis, C.S. George MacDonald: An Anthology of 365 Readings.
- Lewis, C.S. “Miracles.” In God in the Dock.
- Lewis, C.S. Image and Imagination.
- Lewis, C.S. “Surprised by Joy.” In The Inspirational Writings of C.S. Lewis.
- Lewis, C.S. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.
- Lewis, C.S. Miracles: A Preliminary Study.
- Lewis, C. S. “A Note on Comus,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
- Lewis, C.S. Perelandra
- Lewis, C.S. and E.M.W. Tillyard. The Personal Heresy: A Controversy.
- Lewis, C.S. Poems.
- Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters.
- Lewis, C.S. Selected Literary Essays.
- Macdonald, George. Phantases: A Faerie Romance
- Malory, Thomas. Le Morte Darthur.
- Myers, Doris T. C.S. Lewis in Context.
- Otto, Rudolph. The Idea of the Holy.
- Pliny the Elder. Natural History.
- Quash, Ben and Michael Ward, eds. Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why it Matters what Christians Believe.
- Sheldrake, Philip. Living Between Worlds: Place and Journey in Celtic Spirituality.
- Tillich, Paul. Dynamics of Faith.
- Vaus, Will. The Hidden Story of Narnia: A Book-by-Book Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Spiritual Themes.
- Ward, Michael. Planet Narnia
- West, John G. “The Magician’s Twin,” in The Magician’s Twin.
- Yandell, Stephen. “The Allegory of Love and The Discarded Image: C.S. Lewis as Medievalist.” In C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy, Vol. 4
- Yuasa, Kyoko. C. S. Lewis and Christian Postmodernism: Word, Image, and Beyond.
- Zaleski, Philip, and Carol Zaleski. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings.
V1I3 (Fall 2018) Courage, Strength, & Hope
- Anselm. Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works
- Auerbach, Shona. Dear Frankie
- Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
- Bird, Brad. The Incredibles 2
- Bulfinch, Thomas. Mythology
- Burton, Richard. The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Chesterton, G.K., Orthodoxy
- Dante. Inferno
- Garth, John. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
- Homer. The Odyssey
- Johnston, Robert K. Reel Spirituality
- Lewis, C.S. The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis
- Lewis, C.S. The Discarded Image
- Lewis, C.S. An Experiment in Criticism
- Lewis, C.S. The Four Loves
- Lewis, C.S. Great Divorce
- Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed
- Lewis, C.S. Image and Imagination
- Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Lewis, C.S. The Magician’s Nephew
- Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity
- Lewis, C.S. Miracles
- Lewis, C.S. Perelandra
- Lewis, C.S. Screwtape Letters
- Lewis, C.S. Surprised by Joy
- Lewis, C.S. Till We Have Faces
- Lewis, C.S. The Weight of Glory and Other Essays
- MacDonald, George. A Dish of Orts
- Markos, Louis. On the Shoulders of Hobbits: the Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis
- Markos, Louis. Restoring Beauty: The Good, The True, and The Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis.
- Miller, Michael. The Magician’s Twin
- Miranda, Lin-Manuel. Hamilton
- Overstreet, Jeffrey. Through a Screen Darkly
- Plato. Republic
- Reynolds, John Mark. When Athens Met Jerusalem
- Steiner, Bernard C., and James McHenry. The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry
- Thompson, Francis. “The Hound of Heaven.” In Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit
- Tolkien, J.R.R. “Mythopoeia.”
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
- Tolkien, J.R.R. On Fairy Stories
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring
- Tolkien, J.R.R. Return of the King
- Tolkien, J.R.R. Tales from the Perilous Realm
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Two Towers
- Vignale, Giovanni. The Beautiful Invisible: Creativity, Imagination, and Theoretical Physics
- Williams, Donald T. An Encouraging Thought: The Christian Worldview in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Zaleski, Philip, and Carol Zaleski. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
V1I2 (Summer 2018) The Power of Story
- Augustine, The Confessions
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- GK Chesterton, In Defense of Sanity
- GK Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
- GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
- Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden
- Bart Ehrman, God’s Problem
- Malcolm Guite, Faith Hope and Poetry
- David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Bacz Jacek, C.S. Lewis: The Problem of Pain
- Peter Kreeft, Socrates Meets Hume
- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
- C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
- C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
- C.S. Lewis, Miracles
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
- C.S. Lewis, Meditations in a Toolshed
- C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
- C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
- C.S. Lewis, The Seeing Eye and Other Selected Essays
- C.S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays
- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
- C.S. Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Blaise Pascal, Penses
- Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom and Evil
- George Macdonald, A Dish of Orts
- Shakespeare, Hamlet
- E.M. Tillyard, Shakespeare’s Problem Plays
- J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
- Michael Ward, Planet Narnia
V1I1 (Spring 2018) The Abolition of Man
- Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading,
- Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings, ed. Ralph McInerny,
- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
- Forrest E. Baird and Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Philosophic Classics
- ] Paul Boghossian, Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism,
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- Confucius, Analects II.16
- Whittaker Chambers, Witness,
- T.S. Eliot, Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
- Malcolm Guite, Faith, Hope, and Poetry:
- Stanley Hauerwas, Heresies and How to Avoid Them
- A.B. Keith’s Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics.
- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
- C.S. Lewis, Augustine’s City of God
- C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image
- C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
- C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
- C.S. Lewis, Pilgrims Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition
- C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
- C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
- C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
- C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
- George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
- Louis Markos, The Life and Writings of C.S. Lewis
- Louis Markos, Restoring Beauty
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Gay Science
- Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis: A Life, Eccentric Genius
- Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories,
- Holly Ordway, Apologetics and the Christian Imagination
- Nancy Pearcey, Saving Leonardo
- Plato, Republic
- Plato, Theaetetus
- William L. Rowe, God and the Problem of Evil
- William Shakespeare, Complete Plays
- Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene,
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
- Christopher Watkin, From Plato to Postmodernism