While the Chronicles of Narnia series has enthralled its readers for several generations, Professor Michael Ward of the University of Oxford contends that many have glossed over its deeper meaning. Following his convocation address in Christ Chapel on Nov. 14, earlier that morning, Ward gave a lecture titled “Great Balls of Fire: C.S. Lewis, Narnia,...
C.S. Lewis, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, is widely known for his children’s book series, the Chronicles of Narnia. His philosophical treatises on objective morality in “The Abolition of Man,” and the nature of temptation in “The Screwtape Letters” have also gained him great notoriety. Many are familiar with him...
C.S. Lewis organized his classic children’s series “The Chronicles of Narnia” around the pre-Copernican medieval concept of a universe with seven heavens, according to Michael Ward, a senior research fellow at Oxford University and author of “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis.” “Lewis’s best-known works, the seven Chronicles of Narnia,...