Part two of the 2015 C.S. Lewis Lecture by Dr. Michael Ward at Westminster College in Fulton, MO on "Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of CS Lewis." Delivered on Feb. 26, 2015 within the Coulter Science Center on Westminster's campus.

This lecture centers around Dr. Ward’s groundbreaking study on Lewis’s symbolic use of the medieval understanding of the universe in writing his Tales of Narnia. The study has provoked a major revaluation not only of the Chronicles but of Lewis’s whole literary and theological outlook.

The Chronicles of Narnia is Lewis’s sevenbook series detailing the adventures of children in a fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts and talking animals. Dr. Ward is a bestselling author and a popular Public Broadcasting Station commentator, as well as a world expert on British author and theologian C.S. Lewis.

The HarrodC.S. Lewis Legacy Lecture and Professorship of Religious Studies were endowed in the fall of 2012 by James W. “Jim” Harrod, Westminster Class of 1957, and his wife Sharon from Horseshoe Bay, TX. The HarrodC.S. Lewis Professor of Religious Studies researches, writes and teaches on the history, current condition and future of religion. The Lectures are intended to honor the legacy of the late British theologian by engaging the campus community and the surrounding community in topics and issues that were important to him and that stimulated his writing.

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Dr. Ward's morning lecture on "The Theological Imagination of C.S. Lewis":    • The Theological Imagination of C.S. L...  
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