About
History
The C.S. Lewis Society of California is an independent, non-profit, Christian, educational and cultural organization interested in events, publications, and other developments that advance deeper understanding of the enduring philosophical, cultural, historical, literary, spiritual, social, and economic issues of mankind.
- Stimulate and advance public interest in the life, works, and ideas of C. S. Lewis
- Encourage deeper understanding of Lewis as a man, author and thinker, as well as others’ work that pertains to such topics
- Foster understanding of and serve as a clearinghouse of information on the issues Lewis addressed
- Promote both popular and scholarly study and writing
- Sponsor and organize speaking, theatrical, film and other events
- Network with and assist other organizations that share an active interest in such topics
About C.S. Lewis
In its November 7, 2005 issue, Time magazine noted the following about the world-renowned Oxford/Cambridge scholar and best-selling author C.S. Lewis:
“In 1947, a Time cover story hailed Lewis as ‘one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world.’ Now, 58 years later (and 42 years after his death, in 1963), he could arguably be called the hottest theologian.”
Indeed, C. S. Lewis’s books sell at an astounding rate worldwide, and in his extensive and immensely popular work, he very effectively champions objective truth, goodness, natural law, literary excellence, reason, science, individual liberty, personal responsibility, and Christian faith. In his professional writings, Lewis was a literary critic, novelist, poet, essayist, and man of letters. His work captures a grandeur, precision, wit, imagination and insight seldom matched by others, and in the process, he articulately critiques the materialism, reductionism, scientism, collectivism, nihilism, statism, and de-humanization of the modern era.
Officers and Board of Directors
Paul D. Ashby, Ph.D.
Treasurer
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California
José Maria J. Yulo, Ed.D.
Instructor, The Academy of Art University; Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
In Memoriam Board of Directors
David J. Theroux
Founder and President
Board of Advisors
Michael D. Aeschliman
Professor of Education, Boston University; Director, Erasmus Institute, Switzerland
Jonathan J. Bean
Professor of History, Southern Illinois University
Arthur C. Brooks
Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Paul A. Cleveland
Professor of Economics, Birmingham-Southern College
G. Marcus Cole
Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
James T. Como
Professor of Rhetoric and Public Communication, York College, City University of New York
Stephen T. Davis
Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
David C. Downing
Co-Director, Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College
Colin Duriez
Author, The C.S. Lewis Encyclopedia, The C.S. Lewis Chronicles, The Inklings Handbook, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, A Field Guide to Narnia, and Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings
Kenneth G. Elzinga
Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
Thomas P. Flint
Professor of Philosophy and Director
Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame
Stewart C. Goetz
Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Ursinus College
Peter J. Hill
George F. Bennett Chair of Economics Emeritus, Wheaton College
Laurence R. Iannaccone
Director, Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society
Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University
Philip Jenkins
Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director for the Program on Historical Studies of Religion, Baylor University
Peter G. Klein
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise
Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University
Robert C. Koons
Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas
Peter J. Kreeft
Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
John C. Lennox
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, Green Templeton College
Wilfred M. McClay
Victor David Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization, Hillsdale College
Scot McKnight
Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University
Marjorie Lamp Mead
Associate Director, The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College
J. P. Moreland
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University
Andrew P. Morriss
Dean and Anthony G. Buzbee Dean’s Endowed Chairholder, Texas A&M School of Law
Alvin Plantinga
Jellema Chair in Philosophy, Calvin College; John O’Brien Chair of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Mary S. Poplin
Professor of Educational Studies and Director, Institute for Education in Transformation
Claremont Graduate University
Stephen G. Post
Professor of Preventive Medicine
Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics
Stony Brook University
Peter J. Schakel
Peter C. and Emajean Cook Professor of English, Hope College
Jeffrey P. Schloss
Professor of Biology, Westmont College
Rodney Stark
University Professor of Social Sciences
Co-Director and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University
Edward P. Stringham
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation and Deputy Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment, Trinity College
Eleonore A. Stump
Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis University
Charles Taliaferro
Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College
Jerry L. Walls
Professor of Philosophy, Asbury Theological Seminary
Michael Ward
Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University; Professor of Apologetics, Houston Baptist University
Robert M. Whaples
Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia; Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale University