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The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis

By: Louis Markos, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Louis Markos
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What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.

This is your chance to explore a canon of literary work that speaks volumes about the imaginative, emotional, and spiritual power of literature. As you delve into the depths of enduring works such as the Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, and Till We Have Faces, you'll consider a range of questions central to truly understanding why C.S. Lewis has had such a profound impact on 20th-century readers.

From the magisterial Oxford History of English Literature to children's fantasy series, how did Lewis write with such brilliance and coherence in so many distinct fields? What were the people, events, and influences that shaped his thought, his character, and the spiritual drama at his life's core? What do Lewis's fictional and factual autobiographies reveal about his conversion and his efforts to explain and defend Christianity? How do his writings help readers come to grips with perennial spiritual questions involving miracles, suffering, sin, and salvation?

Join Professor Markos for an eye-opening examination of why Lewis - the Oxbridge don and self-described, "very ordinary layman of the Church of England," touches millions of readers so deeply and is considered the most widely read Christian spokesman of our time.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Really enjoyed this. The lecturer's enthusiasm for Lewis and his works is infectious and I listened to the whole series in just two days. My only regret is that this series wasn't longer.

infectious enthusiasm

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Louis Markos presents in a really enjoyable and palatable way, going through Lewis’s works in a logical order. I too share Markos’s favourite, The Great Divorce. I found the description of the Narnia Chronicles enlightening. Thank you Louis!

I would wholeheartedly recommend this course. How about a part 2?

Enthusiastic and very enjoyable presentation of the works of C.S.Lewis

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Lecture 1
I like this speaker, his words are accurate and he is clear and informative, no pretentious hyperbole, just listenable teaching.
Lecture 2
Surprised by Joy and Pilgrim's Regress
Really good expounding on these, wasting no words, just speaking things that I am so in tune with, even though the Irish are the ‘blessed’ and us English leave a lot to be desired!!
Lecture 3: Ethics and the Tao - Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man
Again, with such clarity, I’m enjoying each lecture, one after the other. His students are blessed, imho!
Lecture 4: Nature and Supernature - Miracles and The Problem of Pain
Lecture 5: Heaven and Hell - The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce
When people squabble over something a Christian writer believes: I do wonder that they cannot just step back and either write their own texts, or just follow the Word in 2 Timothy 2:14 where we are told to not argue and quibble.
We are all free to believe the Word of God, whichever depth we go to, it is our decision and is hardly sensible when a Christian decides that another Christian is not believing in the interpretation of the Bible, that they ‘should’ do!’
Lecture 6: Lewis the Scholar - Apologist for the Past
“...Bringing down the world to the lowest common denominator” I have been feeling this way for a long time now!
Lecture 7: Paradise Regained - The Space Trilogy I
Lecture 8: Temptation, Struggle, and Choice - The Space Trilogy II
Lecture 9: Smuggled Theology - The Chronicles of Narnia I
Lecture 10: Journeys of Faith - The Chronicles of Narnia II
Lecture 11: The Beginning and the End - The Chronicles of Narnia III
So enjoying the exposition of these novels. He makes them so real and listenable, I just loved it.
Lecture 12: Suffering unto Wisdom - Till We Have Faces and A Grief Observed

great listening

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This was fascinating and I really enjoyed it. But it went at such a breakneck speed that, on occasions, it gave me a headache and I just had to turn it off for a while. I would LOVE to hear this in more detail over an extra 3 or 4 lectures. I was willing Markos to go deeper into all the Chronicles of Narnia. He definitely left me wanting to know more about CS Lewis but if I had time for research, I wouldn’t be listening to audiobooks!

Too much too fast, nothing like enough on Narnia

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Great look at the works of Lewis in a logical order. To the point lectures bringing underlying meaning to the surface. A fitting reminder to the genius of C.S. Lewis

Insightful and well presented

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