In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Josh Herring, professor of humanities and classical education at Thales College. They discuss Josh’s new book, Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis’s Images of Gender, published by the Davenant Institute.

Is it fair to describe Lewis as a gender theorist? Why should we turn to Lewis in times of gender trouble? How does his consideration of gender diverge from contemporary gender ideology? What are the sources for Lewis’s own theory on gender? How does Lewis’s conception of gender show up in his fiction and nonfiction? What do Lewis’s critics get wrong about his views on gender? Does he speak about these issues in a unique way, or is he simply an outstanding representative of an older tradition?

Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis’ Images of Gender

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis

The Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) | C.S. Lewis

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold | C.S. Lewis

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4) | C.S. Lewis

The Four Loves | C.S. Lewis

The Abolition of Man | C.S. Lewis

Spenser's Images of Life | C.S. Lewis

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature | C.S. Lewis

Life on the Silent Planet: Essays on Christian Living from C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy | Rhys Laverty, ed.

C.S. Lewis and the Apocalypse of Gender | J.C. Scharl

Science Fiction with a Soul | Bradley J. Birzer

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Josh Herring Finds the Gender Theory We Need in C.S. Lewis