Event date:
Thursday 12 September to Friday 13 September
Time:
18:00
Location:
Main Hall, Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL
Dr Michael Ward: Planet Narnia. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. Followed by discussion with Professor Richard Demarco.
This talk launches the related exhibition of paintings by Rose Strang.
Dr Ward is Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall in the University of Oxford and Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, Texas. On the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death, Ward unveiled a permanent national memorial to him in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. Ward read English at Oxford, Theology at Cambridge, and has a PhD in Divinity from St Andrews. He lectures widely on theology and imagination, and presented the BBC television documentary, 'The Narnia Code'.