C.S. Lewis and The Modern World

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By Thomas Howard on January 1, 1981 ,

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C. S. Lewis and the Modern World

Professor Howard, a distinguished Lewis scholar, introduces this lecture with frequent reference to Lewis’s short book, “The Abolition of Man.” From this he introduces the concept of the “tao”, by which he simply means the ultimate underlying truth. To this he relates the relativism of the modern world. This is well illustrated with poetry drawn from the Lewis’s book.

This is a Legacy Audio recording drawn from a collection of free audio resources over the last 30+ years featuring themes which are still relevant today. Due to the archival nature of the recordings, some of the audio content may not be up to today's digital standards, but nonetheless, the content is still applicable.

Thomas Howard

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Thomas Howard, a convert to Roman Catholicism, is Professor Emeritus of English at St. John's Seminary and previously an English professor who taught at Gordon College in Massachusetts. He is a highly acclaimed writer and scholar, noted for his studies of Inklings, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams as well as books including Christ the Tiger (1967), Chance or the Dance? (1969), Hallowed be This House (1976), Evangelical is Not Enough (1984), If Your Mind Wanders at Mass (1995), On Being Catholic (1997), and Dove Descending (2006.) Howard earned his PhD from NYU where his dissertation was on C.S. Lewis’s friend, Charles Williams. A lifelong Lewis scholar, Howard visited Lewis at the Kilns in 1961.

 

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