Required reading list of texts which students should read before arrival:

C.S. Lewis, The great divorce (1945; New York, 2001)

—— The Problem of Pain (1940; New York, 2001)

—— Essay collection: faith, Christianity and the church, ed. L. Walmsley (2002) [esp. sections 1–2]

E.J. Wielenberg, God and the reach of reason: C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and

Bertrand Russell (2007)

Recommended reading list of additional texts which students should read when in Oxford:

Lewis, C.S., Miracles, rev. edn (1960; New York, 2001)

—— The Screwtape letters (1942; New York, 2001)

—— A grief observed (1961; New York, 2001)

—— The pilgrim’s regress (1933; Michigan, 1992)

—— ‘Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's to be Said’, Of other worlds: essays and stories, ed. W. Hooper (1966)

V. Reppert, C. S. Lewis’s dangerous idea: in defense of the argument from reason (2003)

C.S. Kilby, The Christian world of C.S. Lewis (1964, 1995)

Although we will not be studying them closely, you may also like to look at:

C.S. Lewis, The chronicles of Narnia (1950–56)

——The space trilogy [Out of the silent planet (1938); Perelandra (or Voyage to Venus) (1943); That hideous strength (1946)]

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