EPISODE 84 - CS Lewis on the Gender Question, with Josh Herring

Josh Bowman interviews Dr. Josh Herring on his new book, Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis's Images of Gender. We discuss Lewis’s fiction and non-fiction, and how the great Christian apologist, scholar, and author gives us ways to think through masculinity and femininity. 

Josh Herring is the Curriculum Program Manager for the Rafiki Foundation and Director of the Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies.

To purchase the book, visit our friends at the Davenant Institute: https://davenantinstitute.org/sons-of-adam-daughters-of-eve

Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies: https://www.logresinstitute.org/

Rafiki Foundation: https://rafikifoundation.org/

0:00 Upcoming Ciceronian Society Events & Projects
3:02 Why Write About the Radioactive Topic of CS Lewis on Gender?
6:20 What Does it Mean to Grow Up into a Man or Woman?
10:46 Overcoming Opposition from the Lewis Estate
15:45 Why Listen to CS Lewis on Femininity?
22:33 Why Gender Theory is So Dangerous
30:45 CS Lewis's Essay "Priestesses in the Church"
36:15 CS Lewis's Use of Spencer & Faerie Queen
46:26 CS Lewis's Use of Milton & Paradise Lost
49:32 Positive & Negative Masculinity & Femininity
1:01:45 Other Images of Masculine & Feminine in Literature
1:09:59 4 Books (for Christians) on Images of Gender in Literature

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