Fairy-Story Apologetics, Pt. 2
byEditor’s note: Part one of this installment can be read here. It defined fairy-stories and expressed that they can be a potent defense of…
Imaginative Apologetics
The Canary in the Coal Mine? Thoughts on Allegory
byTeaching allegory is always a bit of an uphill battle. I used to think that allegory was difficult for students because they simply weren’t…
Visiting Scholar Series: Imagination and Reason
byImagination and reason: how do they relate to each other? Working in the field of cultural apologetics, and specifically in imaginative and literary apologetics,…
Austin Farrer: A Very Different ‘Kettle of Fish’
byEditor’s Note: In this second response to Michael Ward’s post, “The Next C.S. Lewis? A Note on Austin Farrer,” Professor Ann Loades gives a contrasting perspective….
The Imaginative Legacy of Austin Farrer
byEditor’s Note: In this post, Robert MacSwain responds to fellow St Andrews alum Michael Ward’s 14 February 2014 post: “The Next C.S. Lewis? A Note…
The Next C.S. Lewis? A Note on Austin Farrer
byIt was sometimes said after C.S. Lewis’s death that his apologist’s mantle had fallen on the shoulders of Austin Farrer.[1] The two men knew each…
The Myth Made Fact in the Local Congregation
byOne of the stumbling blocks that held C. S. Lewis back from embracing Christianity was his inability to understand how the death of an…