Seminars

OX-12 ~ “The Education of Cor and Corin: How Lewis’ Medieval Mindset Colored his View of Learning, His Sense of Self, and Meaning in Life”  with Joel Heck

This seminar addresses education in the life of C. S. Lewis in three ways: how he was educated, how he educated others, and what philosophy of education he had acquired in the years in which he was educated. His education provided a foundation for understanding himself, but it was not until his conversion that his education in the liberal arts provided him with something about which to write, thereby giving meaning to his life. We will begin with the educational picture that Lewis paints in The Horse and His Boy and then move to many of the conclusions of Irrigating Deserts: C. S. Lewis on Education. We will also look at The Chronicles of Narnia to see how they develop moral virtues and a sense of the moral self in relation to God in all who read them, both children and adults.

Joel Heck teaches courses in Old Testament, New Testament, and the life and writings of C. S. Lewis at Concordia University Texas. He holds the Doctor of Theology from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He is the author or editor of eight books, most recently a book on C. S. Lewis’s educational philosophy, Irrigating Deserts: C. S. Lewis on Education (2006) which received a Marion E. Wade Center research grant. Dr. Heck spent the fall of 2004 in Oxford, working with Walter Hooper on Vol. III of Lewis’s Collected Letters. He is currently working on a reprint of Lewis and Tillyard’s The Personal Heresy, expected to be released this summer.

 

 

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