Tag Archives: Michael Ward

“The Planets” in C.S. Lewis’ Writing, with a Planet Narnia Chart (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

At A Pilgrim in Narnia we have an occasional feature called “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own blog-hoard or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links, Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Holly Ordway, Medieval Cosmology, Michael Ward, Narnia, Planet Narnia, Ransom Trilogy, science, Science Fiction, The Discarded Image, The Planets, Walter Hooper, William O'Flaherty | 23 Comments

7 New Audiobooks on C.S. Lewis: Michael Ward, James Como, Stephanie Derrick, Patti Callahan, Joe Rigney, Diana Glyer, Gary Selby

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Checking Audible for something completely unrelated, I was pleased to see that Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia is now on audiobook. I thought I would provide a brief set of reviews on some good, new Audible C.S. Lewis finds. While sometimes audiobooks … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Biography, Reviews | Tagged Abigail Santamaria, audiobooks, Becoming Mrs. Lewis, Diana Pavlac Glyer, Gary Selby, James Como, Joe Rigney, Joy Davidman, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia, reception, reception history, Stephanie Derrick, The Fame of C.S. Lewis, The Narnia Code | 26 Comments

8 Questions about the Problem of Susan Narnia Debate, or How to Read Well

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Kat Coffin’s brief article last week on “The Problem of Susan” is the hottest post of 2019. “How do you Solve a Problem like Susan Pevensie?” has been discussed in the blog comments and in various forums, sometimes with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Original Research, Reflections, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged A Preface to Paradise Lost, An Experiment in Criticism, Gender Theory, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mere Christianity, Michael Ward, Narnia, Reading, sexism, That Hideous Strength, The Last Battle, The Personal Heresy, The Problem of Susan, The Screwtape Letters, The Silver Chair, Till We Have Faces, Virginia Woolf | 56 Comments

“The Current State of C.S. Lewis Studies”: HBU Talk and Panel with Michael Ward

Posted on March 30, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Houston Baptist University’s Master of Arts in Apologetics has become a real centre of exploration of scholarship about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings. This makes sense as the Inklings are some of the most significant imaginative Christian writers … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Holly Ordway, Michael Ward | 6 Comments

“(Re)Considering the Planet Narnia Thesis”: My Article in An Unexpected Journal

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Popular readers of C.S. Lewis and A Pilgrim in Narnia may be surprised that I have not been won over by Michael Ward’s thesis in Planet Narnia. It is an elegant, sophisticated, symmetrical, and well-argued idea about how C.S. Lewis constructed … Continue reading →