The Life and Writings of C.S. Lewis (The Great Courses, 297) by Louis Markos - 2000

Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching Company. 2000. Audio CD. As New. Twelve 30-minutes lectures on six As New Audio CDs in original clamshell case along with an As New paperback Course Guidebook (88 pages). Suitable for a gift.

What is it about British literary scholar and author C. S. Lewis, the Oxbridge don and self-described "very ordinary layman of the Church of England," that touches millions of readers so deeply, making him the most widely read Christian spokesman of our time? In these lectures you will cover Lewis's spiritual autobiography and other creative works, as well as his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.

Contents: The legacy of C.S. Lewis -- Argument by desire, Surprised by joy and The pilgrim's regress -- Ethics and the Tao, Mere Christianity and The abolition of man -- Nature and supernature, Miracles and The problem of pain -- Heaven and hell: The Screwtape letters and The great divorce -- Lewis the scholar, Apologist for the past -- Paradise regained, The space trilogy I -- Temptation, struggle, and choice, The space trilogy II -- Smuggled theology, The chronicles of Narnia I -- Journeys of faith, The chronicles of Narnia II -- The beginning and the end, The chronicles of Narnia III -- Suffering unto wisdom, Till we have faces and A grief observed.