Saturday, February 02, 2008

Lewis and the Planets


Michael Ward has just published an new book on Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, entitled Planet Narnia:The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis. Ward gave a presentation on these ideas a few years ago at Hillsdale College, where eldest ds Ben had the pleasure of dining with him, showing him around campus, and introducing him for the lecture he gave. Ben's assessment is that the gentleman is personable, brilliant, and dead-on in regards to his analysis of Lewis in the Chronicles. And apparently Philip Ryken agrees. It sounds like an interesting premise. Now to wait for Oxford University Press to run some kind of special....

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