2018 Plenary Talk | 1:01:56 | All Grade Levels
Summary
In my second of two lectures, I will consider how Lewis’s Space Trilogy also segues with key aspects of classical Christian education: 1) order, hierarchy, and obedience are good things that are not rendered inert by innovation and progress (Out of the Silent Planet); 2) students must learn delayed gratification and must avoid the modern narratives of narcissism, victimization, and gender neutrality (Perelandra); 3) students’ minds must be liberated from false utopian promises that would remake and reduce man to a cog in the machine (That Hideous Strength).
Speaker
Dr. Louis Markos holds a BA in English and history from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He is a professor of English and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University, where he teaches courses on British Romantic and Victorian Poetry and Prose, the Classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and Art and Film. Dr. Markos holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities and lectures on ancient Greece and Rome, the early church and Middle Ages, the Renaissance and romanticism for HBU’s Honors College. He is the author of eighteen books, including From Achilles to Christ, On the Shoulders of Hobbits, Literature: A Student’s Guide, CSL: An Apologist for Education, three Canon Press Worldview Guides to the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, & two children’s novels, The Dreaming Stone and In the Shadow of Troy, in which his kids become part of Greek mythology and the Iliad and Odyssey. His son Alex teaches Latin at the Geneva School in Boerne, TX.
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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