An Unexpected Journal: Abolition of Man: Subtitle: Reflections on CS Lewis's Essay on the Decline of Humanity
About this ebook
Lewis' warnings are particularly salient today. This collection of essays explores the truth Lewis offers and its applications in the current day.
CONTRIBUTORS
C. M. Alvarez: "From The Green Book to The River: Lewis, Relativism, and Constructivism in Education." An essay illustrating the shortcomings of constructivism through Lewis' reflections in The Abolition of Man and "The River" by Flannery O'Connor.
Annie Crawford: "Searching the Stars." A reflection on the modern difference between quality and quantity.
Karise Gililland: "Dragons in Our 'Darkest Hours:' Slaying All Day the Lewis Way" on combating the dragon of sexual exploitation.
Seth Myers: "Lewis Among the Ancients and Moderns" and "The Abolition of Man as Sci-Fi: C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy"
Annie Nardone: "Creation," A poem on the majesty of the cosmos.
Zak Schmoll: "The Separation of Narnia and Tao." A commentary on the destruction of objective truth in The Last Battle of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Edward A. W. Stengel: "Will These Hands Ne'er be Clean? C. S. Lewis and the Apologetic Response to the themes of Macbeth" and the reality of human evil.
Rebekah Valerius: The Abolition of Students and the consequences of naturalism on campus.
Hannah Zarr: "The Death of Freedom" and the insuffiency of Nietzsche's innovation.
Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2018
154 pages.
About the author
Zachary D. Schmoll earned his Ph.D. in Humanities at Faulkner University and his M.A. in Apologetics from Houston Baptist University. He serves as the Managing Editor of An Unexpected Journal, a quarterly publication of cultural and imaginative apologetics. He is the author of Disability and the Problem of Evil (2021) and his academic work has been published in Christianity & Literature, Mythlore, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Faith and the Academy, and Fourth World Journal. His essays have also been featured at Public Discourse, Front Porch Republic, and The Federalist.
Carla Alvarez is a founding board member of and regular contributor to An Unexpected Journal. She lives in Houston, Texas with her three daughters. She holds a Masters in Cultural Apologetics from Houston Baptist University. She is a senior consultant at Legacy Marketing Services, a writer for RaisedtoWalk.org, and a Bible teacher for Bright Sheep Ministries.
Annie Crawford lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and three teenage daughters. She currently homeschools, teaches humanities courses, and serves on the Faith & Culture team at Christ Church Anglican. Annie recently completed a Masters of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University.
Karise Gililland has a BA in English from Southern Methodist University and a Masters in Imaginative and Cultural Apologetics from Houston Baptist University. She consumes copious amounts of time (and coffee!) shuttling her teenagers to and fro, rescuing her cats from impending peril, and writing for An Unexpected Journal. She currently teaches the most amazing third graders at a classical Christian school in Fort Worth.
Seth Myers completed his MA in Cultural Apologetics from Houston Baptist University in 2017. As a power systems engineer, he has been involved with transformer diagnostics and rural electrification projects by partnering with NGOs in West Africa. A volunteer with international students through local churches, he enjoys conversations with friends from all cultures. He considers himself rich in friendships across time and space, including but not limited to C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Bede the Venerable, Augustine, Ravi Zacharias & friends, and many student friends (chess-playing when possible, but not required) typically from throughout Asia. He has recently begun taking online courses in Faulkner University’s Doctor of Humanities program.
Annie Nardone is a two-year C.S. Lewis Institute Fellow with a Master of Arts degree in Cultural Apologetics from Houston Baptist University. She has homeschooled her three kids for twenty-five years and taught art and humanities at her local co-op. Her heart is for Rohan, Narnia, and Hogwarts, far fairer lands than this. Annie contributes and edits for An Unexpected Journal at www.anunexpectedjournal.com. She publishes online at www.literarylife.org, www.theperennialgen.com, and most recently began writing for the online magazine Cultivating at www.thecultivatingproject.com. She also wrote an historical cookbook for Bright Ideas Press. She can be contacted at: the.annie.nardone@gmail.com.
Edward Stengel is a Christian Apologetics scholar as well as a Middle School Biblical Studies teacher. His interests include philosophy of religion, science, classic literature, and soccer. His favorite writers include Victor Hugo, NT Wright, David Bentley Hart, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He is an avid Newcastle United supporter and can be found shouting at his TV every Saturday morning.
Read more from Edward at https://theineffablenuminous.
Rebekah Valerius is a graduate of the MA in Apologetics program at HBU. She is a wife and homeschooling mother of two. You can see more of her writing at www.alongthebeam.com.
After graduating Summa Cum Laude and Highest Honors with her B.A. in Journalism and Classical Liberal Arts emphasis from Patrick Henry College, Hannah traveled, worked, and volunteered internationally for a year in the Middle East and Europe. Returning to America, she became a resident Fellow at the John Jay Institute in Philadelphia, where she was equipped with the best ideas of human civilization through engagement with theology, philosophy, politics, law, art, and culture. She then studied the principles of liberty, rights, and free-market economics at a distinguished seminar in Europe and is currently completing her Master’s degree in Cultural Apologetics at Houston Baptist University while working as a journalist for a non-profit.
Virginia de la Lastra is a physician, illustrator, and apologist. In 2015, while studying a Master’s degree in Apologetics at HBU, she discovered a love for drawing and has been doing it ever since. She has illustrated several books, and she regularly illustrates for The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, An Unexpected Journal, Teen STAR, and of course, for her medical students, nieces, nephews and little neighbors.
