Panel Discussion on C. S. Lewis and the Bible

In November, I had the privilege of participating in a series of papers and a brief panel discussion on C. S. Lewis in the Bible at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion. The session was part of the “Biblical Exegesis from Eastern Orthodox Perspectives” section and was in dialogue with and appreciation of Leslie Baynes’ new book, Between Interpretation and Imagination: C. S. Lewis and the Bible (affiliate link).

Fortunately for those of you who are interested in such things, we recorded the proceedings, and those recordings are now available (full playlist).

Led by presider Michael Azar (University of Scranton), the schedule for the session was as follows (the playlist linked above goes in this order also):

Leslie Baynes, Missouri State University: “Light from the East in Narnia: C. S. Lewis’s Use of Orthodox Biblical Interpretation in the Chronicles”,

Jason Staples, North Carolina State University: “Remythologizing Redemption: The Personification of Sin and C. S. Lewis’s Interpretation of Romans in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”

Aubrey Buster, Wheaton College: “Between Interpretation and the Apocalyptic Imagination: C. S. Lewis’s Engagement with Contemporary Scholarship on Apocalyptic Texts”

Edith Mary Humphrey, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary: “The Sacramental Lewis: The Grand Miracle, the Primacy of the Fourth Gospel, and the Big Picture”

Michael J. Christensen, Northwind Seminary: “The Lost Letter to Malcolm: Chiefly on Scripture”

David Congdon, University of Kansas: “Eadem Sunt Omnia Semper: C. S. Lewis among the Modern Theologians”

Discussion among the Panelists