
Archives: January 2010
A Way into Till We Have Faces
January 27th, 2010
Tlll We Have Faces––heavily motivated by Lewis’s longtime interest in the cupid/psyche myth, but now influenced by and filtered through his courtship and marriage to Joy Davidman and mature Christian faith, and interwoven with several complementary writing projects of the roughly same period (Surprised by Joy; The Four Loves; An Experiment in Criticism)––represents a nuanced […]
Shusaku Endo: Japanese Apologist
January 25th, 2010
Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) Shusaku Endo was an award-winning Japanese fiction writer and television personality, born in Tokyo in 1923. He lived with his parents in Manchuria until 1933, when they divorced, then accompanied his mother back to her hometown, Kobe, Japan. At age 12 he was baptized as a Catholic, and embraced this faith as […]
Urbana 09: the State of Christianity
January 24th, 2010
The State of Christianity from Urbana 09 on Vimeo.
Taylor Univ. Announces 7th Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on CSL & Friends
January 11th, 2010
Seventh Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C. S. Lewis & FriendsJune 3-6, 2010 Keynote speakers include: Joseph Pearce: “Unlocking the Christianity of The Lord of the Rings” Robert Trexler: “The Illustrations of At the Back of the North Wind: From Pre-Raphaelite to the Present” Peter Schakel: “Hidden Images of Christ in the Fiction of C. […]
C. S. Lewis and Time Travel Narrative
January 6th, 2010
I recently posted this series of questions to my Linked-In group, “C. S. Lewis Readers and Scholars Association,” and thought I might share it with earnest readers of this blog for their reflections and insights: C. S. Lewis and Time Travel Science-Fiction — is there a Christian view of time travel that permits its orthodox […]
