C.S. Lewis on Imagination, Poetic Knowledge, and Spiritual Formation

Friday, May 23

5:00 – 6:00 PM | Dinner

6:30 – 8:00 PM | Session I – Ways of Knowing: Seeing Along and Seeing At Readings:

• “Meditation in a Toolshed” (essay by Lewis)
• Poem: “Reason” (Lewis) 

Saturday, May 24

8:00 – 10:00 AM | Continental Breakfast Available

10:00 – 11:30 AM | Session II – Language, Imagination, and Meaning Readings:

• “Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare” (essay by Lewis)
• Poem: “The Meteorite” (Lewis) 
• Poem: “The Apologist’s Evening Prayer” (Lewis) 

12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch

1:15 – 2:45 PM | Session III – The Moral and Spiritual Use of Story Readings:

• “The Shoddy Lands” (short story from Lewis’s Of Other Worlds)
• “Our Children Need Stories: The Power of Fiction in Forming the Heart” (B. Howard) 

3:15 – 4:45 PM | Session IV – Re-Enchantment and the Recovery of Wonder Reading: 

• “Forms of Things Unknown” (short story from Lewis’s Of Other Worlds)

 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Dinner

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