2021 Plenary Talk | 58:09 | Culture & Faith, Literature, Philosophy, Theology & Bible
Summary
In my first lecture, I will survey the causes and nature of our modern “Cult of the Ugly,” and then counter that cult through an analysis of Lewis’s science fiction trilogy. In my second lecture, I will continue this analysis by looking at The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces. Though these two talks are best heard in sequence, they can each stand alone.
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; C. S. Lewis: 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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