John Bowen January 8, 2006 No Comments
C.S.Lewis is one of the most unlikely children’s authors you could ever meet. He was an academic all of his life, teaching first at Oxford and later at Cambridge. He was not married till he was over fifty, and had no children of his own, nor any nephews or nieces. His closest friends were other [...]
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In 1959, C.S.Lewis wrote to BBC producer Lance Sieveking, who had apparently proposed that a movie be made of The Chronicles of Narnia. Here is part of Lewis’ response:
I am [...]
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John Bowen April 8, 2004 No Comments
By way of putting this paper in context, I should say that Lewis has been one of my most formative influences from the time I read Mere Christianity as a teenager. I was on staff with IVCF for 26 years, and the last 10 of those were as a campus evangelist, giving lectures on Christian [...]
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Elin Goulden September 3, 2003 No Comments
Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World by Robert Webber (Grand Rapids: Baker Books 1999)
Robert Webber argues that the church is best equipped to meet the challenges of the postmodern era by recovering the resources of the ancient Christian tradition.
Webber sketches the shift from modernity to postmodernity in science, philosophy and culture and describes [...]
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John Bowen March 8, 2003 No Comments
Not everybody who enjoys The Lord of the Rings knows that J.R.R.Tolkien described it as “a deeply religious and Catholic work.” This booklet draws out the Christian underpinnings of the story. Timed to coincide with the release of the third movie in 2003, but intriguing wherever Tolkien’s work is loved.
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