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   The C. S. Lewis Society Newsletter (Spring 2012)   
      
       In This Issue:   
       1. Forthcoming Film: The Lion Awakes   
       2. C.S. Lewis's Beloved Books Series "The Space Trilogy" Now Available as   
   E-Books   
       3. Videos   
       4. Recent Articles   
       5. Recent Books   
       6. Upcoming C. S. Lewis Society Events   
       7. Other Events   
      
   1. Fothcoming Film:   
      
   The Lion Awakes: In a time of war and chaos, doubt gives way to faith, fear   
   gives way to courage, and friendship changes everything. In England’s darkest   
   hour, a voice rings out to tell her what she is fighting for. In 1941, Nazi   
   planes attack London from the sky as the voice of atheism bombs the very   
   foundations of meaning and imagination from the grounds of Oxford University.   
      
   In the path of spiritual ruin stands C. S. “Jack” Lewis, both Professor and   
   former atheist who challenges the very views he once defended. Jack shows how   
   each of his friends brought revelation and truth to his life. The most   
   influential outside his own brother was J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of   
   the Rings and The Hobbit. He describes how Tolkien opens his heart by   
   entwining his love of myth with his adult quest for God. Thus, before Narnia   
   and Middle Earth were created, the fire of chaos and the winds of peace forged   
   a lifelong friendship. The BBC requests Jack address a desperate nation across   
   radio lines because hope is all but lost in the line of battle. As Britain is   
   surrounded and threatened by invasion, Jack turns to a single microphone and   
   addresses millions—a full decade before creating his own Literary Lion in The   
   Chronicles of Narnia.   
      
   The screenplay for the film is co-written by Louis Markos (Professor of   
   English and Scholar in Residence/Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities, Houston   
   Baptist University) and Darren S. Jacobs (Associate Producer and Screenwriter,   
   Renovare Films).   
      
   Expected release: 2013   
      
       Trailer (2:30 minutes)   
       Video with Louis Markos (7:53 minutes)   
       Official website   
       The Lion Awakes (WikiNarnia)   
      
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   2. C.S. Lewis's Beloved "The Space Trilogy" Now Available as E-Books:   
      
   HarperOne, in collaboration with the estate of C. S. Lewis, has announced the   
   first English language E-book release of his three classic "Space Trilogy,"   
   Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength.   
      
   Standing alongside such classics as George Orwell's 1984 and J. R. R.   
   Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, "The Space Trilogy" follows the brilliant Dr.   
   Elwin Ransom—a character modeled after none other than Tolkien himself—as he   
   wages war against the powers of evil in universes familiar and unknown.   
   Confronted by dark forces who threaten to destroy "The Silent Planet," Ransom   
   must travel throughout the galaxy in order to save his home, once known simply   
   as "Earth."   
      
   Including enchanting new worlds, an enthralling cast of characters, and an   
   epic battle of good vs. evil, Lewis's "Space Trilogy" is available   
   electronically in English for the first time, offering a new venue for Sci-Fi   
   lovers and Narnia fans to explore this timeless adventure series.   
      
       Out of the Silent Planet, the first title in this extraordinary series,   
   introduces readers to Dr. Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge academic abducted and   
   taken by spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, or Mars. While plotting to   
   evade his captors—who plan to plunder the planet's treasures and offer Ransom   
   as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there—he discovers what hails from   
   the 'Silent Planet,' or Earth, whose tragic story is known throughout the   
   universe.   
       Perelandra describes Dr. Ransom's voyage to the paradise planet of   
   Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world.   
   Horrified to find his old enemy there as well, Ransom engages in a desperate   
   struggle to save the innocence of Perelandra.   
       That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of Dr. Ransom, who faces an   
   epic war against a totalitarian world. It is up to Ransom and his friends to   
   squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom. The two groups struggle to a   
   climactic resolution that brings the "Space Trilogy" to a magnificent,   
   crashing close.   
      
   3. Videos and Audios:   
      
       William Cavanaugh: Religious Violence: Myth or Global Reality? at Butler   
   University (January 26, 2011)   
       William Lane Craig: Evidence for the Existence of God at Imperial College   
   London (October 18, 2011)   
       William Lane Craig: Evidence for Jesus's Resurrection at Southampton,   
   England (October 24, 2011)   
       William Lane Craig: Is God a Delusion? at Oxford University, Oxford   
   University (October 25, 2011)   
       William Lane Craig and Rodney Holder: Origins of the Universe - Has   
   Stephen Hawking Eliminated God? at St. Andrew the Great Church, Oxford   
   (October, 2011)   
       William Lane Craig vs. Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist? at Biola   
   University (April 4, 2009)   
       William Lane Craig vs. Peter Millican: Does God Exist? at University of   
   Birmingham (October 21, 2011)   
       William Lane Craig and Peter S. Williams vs. Arif Ahmed and Andrew Copson:   
   This House Believes that God is Not a Delusion at Cambridge Union Society in   
   England (October 20, 2011)   
       Dinesh D'Souza and Ian Hutchinson vs. Sean Carroll and Michael Shermer:   
   Has Science Refuted Religion? (March 25, 2012)   
       Ian Hutchinson vs. Lisa Randall: Can Science Explain Everything? sponsored   
   by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (December 6, 2011)   
       Peter Jackson: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Trailer (December 14, 2012)   
       Kathleen Norris, Armand Nicholi, and Peter Kreeft: C.S. Lewis: The   
   Screwtape Letters at NPR (April 9, 2011)   
       Alvin Plantinga: Science and Religion: Where the Conflict Really Lies at   
   Biola University (March 8, 2012)   
       IndoctrinaNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in   
   America Trailer (2011)   
       Why We Need C.S. Lewis College (C. S. Lewis Foundation)   
      
   fd4. Recent Articles:   
      
       Can a Christian Be a Libertarian?, by Norman Horn (Washington Post,   
   December 27, 2011)   
       A Catholic Looks at Veteran's Day, by Charles E. Rice (The Catholic Guys,   
   November 13, 2011)   
       C S. Lewis and the Role of the State: An Interview with David Theroux,   
   interview by Benjamin Wiker (To the Source, March 16, 2012)   
       C.S. Lewis College: We’re Not Dead Yet, by Morgan Feddes (Christianity   
   Today, February 27, 2012)   
       Disestablishing Our Secular Schools, by Charles L. Glenn (First Things,   
   January, 2012)   
       Fantasy Is a Genre of Christianity, by D. G. Myers (Commentary, November   
   3, 2011)   
       “Futilitarians:” Ben Nelson, ObamaCare and the Future of Medicine in   
      
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