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What was the influence of nineteenth century Romanticism on C.S. Lewis? 

Brent talks with Jeffrey Barbeau about his new book from IVP America called ‘The Last Romantic – C.S. Lewis, English Literature and Modern Theology’.

Jeffrey is professor of theology at Wheaton College.  A theologian, literary critic, and historian, he is the author of numerous monographs, anthologies and edited books.  

• (0:45) What changed Jeffrey’s view of Lewis?
• (2:35) Lewis’s marginalia;
• (4:00) The role of the subjective in Lewis;
• (4:50) ‘Mere Christianity’ and personal experience;
• (6:10) Theologians and philosophers who inspired Lewis;
• (7:55) Lewis – the last Romantic? How British Romanticism affected him;
• (9:55) Lewis’s spiritual autobiography and the Romantics;
• (11:00) Lewis and Methodism;
• (12:35) Coleridge and Lewis’s conversion;
• (14:45) Lewis and Nature;
• (16:20) Romantic dream states;
• (18:30) ‘Transposition’ and Coleridge;
• (19:15) Lewis and symbol. The wardrobe!
• (22:30) A new Lewis poem.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.jeffbarbeau.com

www.amazon.com/Last-Romantic-Literature-Theology-Lectureship/dp/1514010518#:~:text=In%20a%20series%20of%20three%20essays%2C%20Barbeau%20explores,Romanticism%20on%20the%20writings%20of%20C.%20S.%20Lewis.

ivpress.com

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