Touching the Golden Pool: Imagination and the Apologetics of Permeation
byPerhaps there is no better way to end a conversation, initiate awkward silence or illicit blank stares at your next dinner party than to…
C.S. Lewis
Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored
byIn his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
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 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…
David Brown & C.S. Lewis at 2013 AAR/SBL Conference
byThe Revd Dr Robert MacSwain, a St Andrews alum, alerts us to two sessions at this year’s American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature conference…
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…
Review: Imaginative Apologetics
byAndrew Davison (ed). Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition. 2011. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. In his Introduction, Andrew Davison…