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To provide a comprehensive analysis and critique on the theology and apologetics of C.S. Lewis.
To examine and evaluate C.S. Lewis’ theology on the Trinity, morality, virtue, epistemology, literature, history, miracles, education, and myth.
Each section of this course will introduce students to Lewis, his works, and his beliefs. The following work is recommended in addition to Lewis’ works that will be discussed.
Dr. Hoffecker, Professor of Church History Emeritus, brings extensive teaching experience to the RTS campus. As a Professor of Religion at Grove City College for 25 years, he taught a wide variety of classes: Church History, Apologetics, Systematic Theology, Missions, Medieval Philosophy, C. S. Lewis’ Apologetics, and Christianity and Culture, to name a few. He received his B.A. from Dickinson College, his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He also served as a Captain in the United States Army. Dr. Hoffecker has contributed numerous historical articles in the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology and the Dictionary of Christianity in America as well as longer pieces on Benjamin B. Warfield in Makers of Christian Theology in America and C. S. Lewis in The Cresset. His doctoral work in the theology of Old Princeton resulted in Piety and the Princeton Theologians and in his biography of Charles Hodge. He has edited a sequel to Building a Christian World View, entitled Revolutions in Worldview.