About this event:
In addition to the reading groups, the Paideia Center provides special lectures designed to augment the groups’ study for that semester. The Lecture is held in the RTS Fellowship Hall, followed by a Community Lunch with Q&A held in the Dining Hall.
Details on this year's lecture:
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis’s most popular and successful work in his lifetime, is a classic satire on the psychology of temptation. Michael Ward shows how it presents the Christian life in terms of both comedy and tragedy, and how, despite its fantastical premise (a bureaucratic correspondence between two devils), it is one of Lewis’s most realistic works of fiction.
Bio on this year's speaker:
Dr. Michael Ward is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is the author of the best-selling and award-winning Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford University Press), and of After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (Word on Fire Academic). He co-edited The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press) and presented the BBC television documentary, The Narnia Code. On the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis’s death, Dr Ward unveiled a permanent national memorial to him in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, London. An occasional actor, he played the role of Vicar in the film The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis, and handed a pair of X-ray spectacles to Agent 007 in the James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.
