Michael Ward (MHT-090)

Thursday, September 02, 2010



"I thought I knew these books. I'd been reading these books for nearly thirty years by this point. And I'd been studying them for ten years and more and at quite a high level. And I knew that people had gone looking for some kind of hidden thread or theme to the books. Critics have suggested all sorts of possible governing ideas like the seven sacraments or the seven deadly sins or the seven virtues or the seven books of Spencer's Fairy Queen, but none of those explanations had ever convinced anyone…" —Michael Ward This segment features scholar and Anglican clergyman Michael Ward discussing his groundbreaking book on C. S. Lewis entitled Planet Narnia. Ward describes to Ken Myers how he came to discover one night the connection between Lewis's conception of the seven Ptolemaic planets and the seven Narnian chronicles. Contrary to some critics, the Chronicles of Narnia are artistically rich and precise as a whole series, and Lewis's vision behind it coherent in its imagination. The full interview with Michael Ward is available here as a MARS HILL AUDIO Conversation entitled The Heav'ns and All the Powers Therein: The Medieval Cosmos and the World of Narnia.	Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Oxford, 2008)

The full 60-minute interview with Michael Ward is available here as a MARS HILL AUDIO Conversation entitled The Heav'ns and All the Powers Therein: The Medieval Cosmos and the World of Narnia.	Lewis, Clive Staples Cosmology

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