Another Course on C. S. Lewis

Last semester I taught a course on C. S. Lewis through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Oklahoma. In it we approached Lewis’s most popular works by genre. Next semester I will be offering another class on C. S. Lewis, this time approaching his works thematically. This will allow me to spend more time drawing on some of his lesser known writings. Here is the course description:

Inklings of Things Deeper: Exploring Life’s Perennial Questions with C. S. Lewis

Is there a God? Is beauty merely in the eye of the beholder? What is truth? What is love? These are some of the questions that have intrigued humans for millennia. C. S. Lewis, one of the greatest Christian authors in the 20th century, was well versed in the literature of our Western intellectual tradition, and devoted much thought and ink to these questions. He had an exceptional ability to weave together his own insights with those of the great thinkers of the past, and to impart those insights with clarity, simplicity, and wit. This course is a tour through the writings of C. S. Lewis, organized around these questions which seem to persist through the centuries.

We shall begin with a biographical overview of Lewis’s life, learning details about his life and times that help bring him to life in the 21st century. We shall then proceed thematically, studying Lewis’s views on: the nature of God; truth, goodness, and beauty—what they are and how they relate to each other; the power and function of myth; the nature of love, and more.

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