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C.S. Lewis: Truth and Meaning
~20 Hours
In this C.S. Lewis: Truth and Meaning course, we will explore his life and writings so that you may better understand and explain your own faith and belief.
Grayson Carter
About This Course
Sanctification, free will, faith, truth: As Christians, many of us have wrestled with and tried to understand these complicated concepts. Countless theologians and authors have dealt with these ideas and attempted their explanations. C.S. Lewis is one such great theologian and author to do this. Through reasoning and storytelling, Lewis introduced complex theological concepts in ways that all of us, even children, can begin to explore and understand. By examining what Lewis has to say about pain, suffering, and grief, we will gain a deeper understanding of concepts and terms like sanctification, heaven and hell, apologetics, and reason and what they have to do with the human condition.
In this C.S. Lewis: Truth and Meaning course, you will join Grayson Carter as he journeys with you through C.S. Lewis’s life and writings so that you may better understand and explain your own faith and belief.
Learning Outcomes
- Examine the narrative of C.S. Lewis’s life by describing the major events that shaped his writings and theology
- Explain Lewis’s theology, his use of reason, and his understanding of the human condition by examining his major writings
- Incorporate C.S. Lewis’s techniques of presenting theological concepts into your own understanding and presentation of a theological issue
A FULLER Equip course
- Spiritual Formation & Vocation or Calling
- Faith
1. Getting Started
Introduction to C.S. Lewis
2. Who Is C.S. Lewis?
3. Biographical Background
4. Educational Background
5. Influences
Religious Background, Christian Conversion, and Introduction to His Theology
6. Religious Background
7. What Influenced C.S. Lewis to Become a Christian?
8. Rejection of Modernism
Lewis and the Use of Reason
9. Reason
10. Reason in Christian Apologetics and Imaginative Literature
11. The Power of Story
Theology in the Human Condition
12. Sanctification
13. Free Will
14. Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
15. Pain and Suffering
16. Personal Pain
Application of C.S. Lewis to Contemporary Ministry
17. Learning and Leading
18. Imagination and Story
Conclusion
19. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Grayson Carter
Associate Professor of Church History
Grayson Carter is associate professor of church history at Fuller Seminary, where he has taught since 2002. Before that, he served as chaplain and tutor for theology at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University, teaching undergraduate and graduate students. He also taught in the Department of Religion at Methodist University in North Carolina. He has written on C.S. Lewis and the First World War, and has lectured and taught courses on Lewis throughout the United States. He has written on C. S. Lewis and the First World War and served as Founding Editor of Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal, the only peer-reviewed academic journal in the world focused exclusively on the life and writings of C. S. Lewis. Currently, he is researching and writing a volume on the “Western Schism”—a major clerical and lay disruption in the Church of England during the early 19th century, and is coediting the diary of an influential Oxford clergymen from the first half of the nineteenth century, which is to be published by the Church of England Record Society. Carter has served as visiting professor at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC, and twice at Nashotah House (Episcopal) Seminary, Wisconsin. He was ordained in the Church of England and has served in various Anglican and Episcopal parishes on both sides of the Atlantic and in the wider Anglican Communion. He is a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society and the Church of England Record Society.
