Jason Lepojärvi studied philosophy, theology, and pedagogics at the University of Helsinki, completing a Ph. D. in 2015. His dissertation explored C.S. Lewis’s theology of love, entitled God is love, but love is not God. His research has also been published broadly in journals, including Harvard Theological Review, Politics and Religion, The Journal of Inklings Studies, and Religious Studies. In a more popular vein, his Essays on Love (in Finnish, Perjantailahja, 2021) is a study of love in literature and in our everyday relations. You can also find Dr. Lepojärvi on YouTube here.

President of the Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society, Dr. Lepojärvi had the opportunity to meet and engage with a wide range of authorities on C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, scholars and fans alike. He has served as a Junior Research Fellow in Theology at Oxford University, a Postdoctoral Scholar in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Thorneloe University at Laurentian in Canada, and a Lecturer in Theology and Literature at The Davenant Institute. Presently he works as the C.S. Lewis Associate Professor of Theology and Literature at George Fox University in Oregon and serves as the Managing Editor of Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal. Not only a scholar of C.S. Lewis, Dr. Lepojärvi has broader interests in all of the Inklings and research interests extend further to the philosophy of love, sex, and gender.

With a father from Lapland and a mother from British Columbia, Jason is a Finnish-Canadian. A world traveler, he has lived in three continents and six countries: England, Finland, Canada, the United States, Germany, and Tanzania. He is also married to a lovely Finnish lady and the father of three bilingual children. Jason is no stranger to television, participating as both a contestant on the Finnish “Survivor” and academic host of “Married at First Sight”. In his spare time, Jason enjoys hunting, motorcycles, and martial arts.

The above image shows Dr. Lepojärvi at Magdalen College, Oxford, where C.S. Lewis worked as a tutor for much of his life. Notice the three windows with flowers? They were the windows of Lewis’s office. (Notice the two windows in the image below? They are the windows of Jason’s mother’s kitchen. Photo: Ilkka Kontturi.)

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