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During the 20th Century, C. S. Lewis, with the help of friends like J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams, responded to a public disenchanted by the seeming irrelevance of “traditional Christianity” and the hopelessness of modern secularism by engaging their imagination with memorable and inspiring fantasy and science-fiction works that spoke to things transcendent and eternal. These works, and the profound Christian aesthetic that undergirded them, made possible a new and refreshing way to experience the Gospel and to spread hope to a readership longing for good news. Lewis and friends re-enchanted the cosmos, “stealing past the watchful dragons” of contemporary taste and conventional wisdom to empower us to see again what is true, real, and lasting.

At the launch of the 21st Century, we in the West remain challenged and edified by the Inklings’ craft and their grasp of the “permanent things.” Lewis, in particular, had an intuitive grasp of the predicaments of modern life and how reason and imagination together offer a heaven-sent compass to help us navigate the stormy seas of cultural relativism and Christophobia. In all of his works, apologetic, poetic, fictional, expository, or analytical, Lewis exhibits the same amazingly coherent and integrated faith-based understanding of world, text, and person.

Come examine with us the foundations of Lewis’ Christian imagination and the formidable worldview he inhabited, and how and why we can continue to learn from him not only of this world but also of the world to come.