Seminars

Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Michael Macdonald, Prof. of European Studies & Philosophy, Director, C.S. Lewis Institute, Seattle Pacific University
Tour Guide Leader: Kim Gilnett, Marketing Associate for the School of Fine and Performing Arts, Seattle Pacific University

Texts: Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce

C.S. Lewis has an exciting and inimitable way of getting at those truths that all orthodox Christians have in common. In the 21st century, it's more important than ever for Christians to stand together in the great cosmic battle between Good and Evil.

Major themes will include the centrality of Jesus, the significance of the cardinal and theological virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance, faith, hope and charity), the role of Satan and "the weight of glory."

Michael Macdonald (Ph.D., Univ. of Washington) is professor of European Studies (German) and philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. In addition to Europe: A Tantalizing Romance, he has also edited (with Peter Kreeft and Richard Purtill) Philosophical Questions: An Introductory Anthology (Prentice-Hall, 1985), edited (with Andrew Tadie) C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton: The Riddle of Joy (Eerdmans, 1989), and Permanent Things (Eerdmans, 1995). He is the Founding Director of Seattle Pacific University's C.S. Lewis Institute, now in its 28th year. The Institute celebrates the works of Lewis and explores their applicability to life in the twenty-first century.