The C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society is now accepting registrations for its twelfth annual meeting on March 26-28, 2009, addressing the theme “Inklings: Dinosaurs or Contemporaries?” and featuring plenary speaker Peter Schakel. See below for more details. Please click here to see the seminar schedule (as a PDF). A detailed schedule will be available mid-February.

In papers and plenary sessions, the conference will explore ways in which C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield and Charles Williams may (or may not) be particularly relevant to the literary, theological, philosophical and socio-political issues of our own early 21st century times. As in previous conferences, we would like to extend the conversation to include Dorothy Sayers as well, and we would like to open the conversation even a bit further this year by including G.K. Chesterton, a strong-minded proto-Inkling of sorts, in the mix. What might this diverse and pleasantly provocative circle of thinkers have to offer to the world of ideas that we find ourselves in?

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Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, MI, invites you to a lecture called: “Are the Chronicles of Narnia an Evangelistic Text?”

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Calvin Theological Seminary Auditorium
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Guest speaker John Bowen is Associate Professor of Evangelism in the Pastoral Department at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, and is also the Director of the Institute of Evangelism. His interests include lay leadership, spirituality in movies and the theology of C.S. Lewis and the Inklings.

The Calvin College community is warmly invited to attend!

After the event, Professor Bowen’s lecture will be available online. Visit the Calvin Seminary Continuing Education page and click on Lecture Archives.

[Calvin Seminary Continuing Ed]
[Download the Lecture (Real Audio Format - available at Real.com)]

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