THE C. S. LEWIS COLLECTION

The ideas, life, and writing of C. S. Lewis have been fruitful sources of discussion with many guests featured on MARS HILL AUDIO products. Here's an opportunity to hear over four hours of stimulating and instructive conversation.

In this special package, we've brought together four different products at a discounted price. Hear Thomas Howard on Till We Have Faces; Alan Jacobs on The Narnian; Michael Ward on Narnia and medieval cosmology; plus Clyde Kilby, M. D. Aeschliman, Gilbert Meilaender, and others.

“The C.S. Lewis Collection” is available on MP3 download or on CD. It contains three MARS HILL AUDIO Conversations and one Anthology.

The C.S. Lewis Collection

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Each item is described briefly and may be ordered individually below.

“The Heav'ns and All the Powers Therein: The Medieval Cosmos and the World of Narnia”

For decades, readers and scholars have wondered whether there was a Master Plan for the structure of the seven books in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. In his book Planet Narnia, Michael Ward makes a compelling case that the qualities attributed to the seven planets in the cosmology of antiquity and the Middle Ages are embodied in the seven books about Narnia. In this Conversation with Ken Myers, Ward explains why Lewis thought the pre-Copernican view of the cosmos can still be of spiritual benefit; that view may not be true (in the sense of factual), but its beauty reveals deeper truths. More information about this Conversation can be found here. 67 minutes

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“Till We Have Faces and the Meaning of Myth”

C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces is, in his own words, “a myth retold,” specifically, the ancient Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche. As literary critic Thomas Howard explains in this Conversation, the ideas explored in the work are wide-ranging and profound: the mystery and “otherness” of the transcendent; human rebellion against the demands of the Divine; servanthood and vicarious suffering. Lewis chose myth as the form through which to wrestle with these ideas, for the mythical way of seeing the world is fundamentally opposed to the tenets of modernism for which Lewis had such unrelenting criticism. Howard discusses the difference between myth and novel, and suggests that, in many ways, Christianity can be understood as the myth that is true. More information about this Conversation can be found here. 50 minutes

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“Alan Jacobs on The Narnian”

In this Conversation with Ken Myers, Alan Jacobs, author of The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, discusses a number of Lewis’s writings, including The Great Divorce, The Abolition of Man, The Magician’s Nephew, That Hideous Strength, and The Pilgrim’s Regress. The theme that dominates the discussion is Lewis’s view of the imagination, and his deep conviction that the shaping of the conscience requires the training of the imagination. More information about this Conversation can be found here. 53 minutes.

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“The Christian Mind of C.S. Lewis”

In this MARS HILL AUDIO Anthology, Ken Myers talks with Clyde Kilby about Lewis’s view of imagination; with Michael Aeschliman about Lewis’s reasonable distrust of trusting reason too much; with James Como about the rhetorical genius in Lewis’s writing; with Thomas Howard about the deep meaning of Till We Have Faces; and with Gilbert Meilaender about the surprising approach of Lewis’s apologetics. The program concludes with Alan Jacobs’s reading of his 1998 essay, “Lewis at 100.” More information about this Anthology can be found here. 73 minutes.

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