Feb 06 2025 26 mins 1
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.
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