Michael Ward
michael.ward2@theology.ox.ac.uk
Michael Ward is Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, where he was Senior Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall (2012-2021) and Chaplain of St Peter’s College (2009-2012). He holds a PhD in Divinity from the University of St Andrews, an MA in English from Oxford, and an MA in Theology from Cambridge, where he was Chaplain of Peterhouse (2004-2007).
He is the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford University Press), winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press).
On the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis’s death in 2013 he unveiled a national memorial to him in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. He also led the project that marked the centenary of Lewis’s birth, 1998, with a memorial in Addison’s Walk, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Selected publications:
Books
After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (Word on Fire Academic, 2021)
C.S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner (Wipf & Stock, 2016), ed. with Peter S. Williams
Heresies and How to Avoid Them (SPCK, 2007), ed. with Ben Quash
Essays and articles
2021 ‘Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is Not the Climax of The Lord of the Rings,’ An Unexpected Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 4)
2020 ‘An Experiment in Charity: C.S. Lewis on Love in the Literary Arts,’ The Inklings and
Culture, ed. Monika B. Hilder et al (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
2018 ‘C.S. Lewis on Christianity and Paganism,’ Sacred Architecture (Vol. 33, Spring)
2015 ‘Afterword,’ C.S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis
Society, ed. Roger White, Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe (Oxford University Press)
2013 ‘Voyage to Venus,’ C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos, ed. Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe (Kent State University Press)
2013 ‘C.S. Lewis lacked faith only in the lasting power of his work,’ The Times (23 November)
2011 ‘The Tragedy is in the Pity: C.S. Lewis and the Song of the Goat,’ Christian Theology and
Tragedy, ed. T. Kevin Taylor and Giles Waller (Ashgate)
2011 ‘C.S. Lewis on Reason and Imagination,’ Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy
and the Catholic Tradition, ed. Andrew Davison (SCM Press)
2003 ‘Planet Narnia,’ The Times Literary Supplement (25 April)
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