C. S. LEWIS / COURSE 2
Love and its Limits
Starting with The Four Loves, explore the nature of love, as reflected by Lewis and developed across his writings, including Till We Have Faces and Surprised by Joy.
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THE APPROACH
A question worth pursuing.
What is love? How many loves? Can men and women be friends? When does love become idolatrous?
As a student, you can take the course as a major or as a minor. If you take it as a minor, you will write on the first four topics. If you take it as a major course, you will write on all eight topics.
Jason will provide a course pack containing a detailed syllabus with primary and secondary sources and an essay prompt for each tutorial, along with detailed instructions and practical tips on essay writing and preparing for and participating in tutorials. From there, develop your own ideas through reading, a written paper, and a conversation with your tutor.
YOUR PAPERS
What you’ll explore.
The minor covers the first four topics. The major covers all eight.
- 1New perspectives on The Four LovesCORE
- 2Lewis and Augustine on love’s vulnerabilityCORE
- 3Lewis on eros and happinessCORE
- 4Lewis on spiritual longing as a form of loveCORE
- 5Lewis on genderMAJOR
- 6Lewis on Christian marriageMAJOR
- 7Lewis on love, worship, and idolatryMAJOR
- 8Lewis on “Christian love”: myth or matchmaker?MAJOR
ON THE READING TABLE
Texts to think with.
Some of the primary sources you will explore include: C. S. Lewis’s books The Four Loves, Till We Have Faces, and Surprised by Joy; C. S. Lewis’s essays, poems, and sermons ‘We Have No Right to Happiness’, ‘Transposition’, ‘Love’s As Warm As Tears’, and ‘Scazons’.
Some of the secondary sources you will explore include: Love in the Western World by Denis de Rougemont; Agape and Eros by Anders Nygren; Confessions by St. Augustine; and The Sword Between the Sexes? by Mary Van Leeuwen.
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
Choose your depth.
Four tutorials
Four papers, four conversations.
US$800Eight tutorials
More time to develop your thinking.
US$1,500Weekly, fortnightly, or monthly meetings can be discussed.
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