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The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: C.S. Lewis, Narnia and the Planets- Fr. Michael Ward

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At a lecture at the University of Dallas, Fr. Michael Ward delves deeply into the world of Narnia through the lens of C.S. Lewis’s medieval literature expertise, defending his thesis that Lewis intended the Narnia books to be a depiction of each of the “seven heavens” of the medieval worldview. Ward winds a captivating path through Lewis’s background influences and each of the seven Narnia Chronicles.

At a lecture at the University of Dallas, Fr. Michael Ward delves deeply into the world of Narnia through the lens of C.S. Lewis’s medieval literature expertise, defending his thesis that Lewis intended the Narnia books to be a depiction of each of the “seven heavens” of the medieval worldview. Ward winds a captivating path through Lewis’s background influences and each of the seven Narnia Chronicles.

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