Westminster College to host C.S. Lewis expert

Michael Ward, director of the C.S. Lewis Centre at Oxford University, will deliver the third annual C.S. Lewis Legacy Lecture at Westminster College on Feb. 26.

According to a press release, Ward will give two lectures. An 11 a.m. in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury titled "The Theological Imagination of C.S. Lewis" will focus on the author himself. A 7:30 p.m. lecture in the Coulter Lecture Hall titled "Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis" will focus on Lewis' use of the medieval understanding of the universe in his Chronicles of Narnia series.

"Dr. Ward is a best-selling author and a popular Public Broadcasting Station commentator, as well as being an authority on C.S. Lewis," Dr. Cliff Cain, Harrod-C.S. Lewis Professor of Religious Studies and chair of Westminster's Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religious Studies, said in the release. "We are fortunate he has agreed to deliver two lectures during his time with us."

Ward, a senior research fellow at Blackfriars Hall in the University of Oxford, wrote a book by the same name as his second lecture, was the co-editor of "The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis" and acted as a presenter for the BBC television documentary "The Narnia Code."