Theologian, priest, Christian apologist, Professor of Theology at Kings College London, and author of 'The Dawkins Delusion'? ( Alister McGrath is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University. A former atheist, he has been one of the foremost critics of the “New Atheism” of Richard Dawkins and others. His most recent work is a highly acclaimed biography of C. S. Lewis, published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death.)
This seminar explores C. S. Lewis’s distinctive way of thinking about the Christian faith, noting his emphasis on both reason and the imagination. Works such as Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia are engaged with as consideration is given as to how Lewis deepens our own vision of faith and helps us commend it to others.