PAST EVENT: Transforming Power of Imagination (Chicago) 7:00PM CT
From 7:00 am to 8:30 am- kj@cslewisinstitute.org
- In Person Event Type
Many of us know C.S. Lewis from The Chronicles of Narnia or Mere Christianity, but what makes Lewis so influential is the way he used stories to open our eyes to spiritual truth and to help us see God’s world afresh.
Holy Trinity Church 218 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60604 kj@cslewisinstitute.org
Jerry Root
Jerry Root is the Christopher W. Mitchell Senior Fellow for C.S. Lewis Studies at the C.S. Lewis Institute; Emeritus Professor of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and a visiting Professor at Biola University. He received his Ph.D. from the Open University through the Oxford Centre for Missions Studies. Jerry has nine published books, as well as numerous articles and publications about C. S. Lewis and evangelism in other books, journals, and periodicals, as well as read numerous academic papers at various academic venues. Recently, he published, Splendour in the Dark, a book about C. S. Lewis’s narrative poem Dymer (the book also includes Lewis’s 100-page poem). Jerry has lectured on Lewis topics at 79 Universities in 19 different countries.
