Joel Heck's Lewis Site

Feel free to download any of the PowerPoint outlines on this page. You may revise them to suit your purposes. My only request is that you credit the author. The newest one is on The Abolition of Man, uploaded on 1/15/2023 after a five-month collaborative study of the book.

This is a new PowerPoint on The Abolition of Man.

I've uploaded a brand new PowerPoint that covers the writings of C. S. Lewis during World War II. I think you'll enjoy it.

The Making of a Rhetorician, Feb. 25, 2010, at Texas State University. 

This PowerPoint file provides an outline of Lewis' 1947 book, Miracles: A Preliminary study, with some discussion questions included.  First in PowerPoint 2003 format and then in PowerPoint 2007 format.

I call Lewis' 1952 publication, Mere Christianity,  "Uncommon Truth in Common Language."

The Screwtape Letters were published in book form in 1942 after being serialized weekly in The Guardian.

An Experiment in Criticism with summary and discussion questions.

Lewis' inaugural address at Cambridge University, 1954, "De Descriptione Temporum."

Lewis and Tillyard debate the topic of whether a poem is a reflection of the poet's personality or about something outside of the poet, and it takes place over the years during the decade of the 1930s in their point-counterpoint series of six essays. 

"The Weight of Glory" and "The World's Last Night" are summarized, with discussion questions, in this PowerPoint. 

This is a separate PowerPoint on "The Weight of Glory" only. 

Notes and discussion guide for The Great Divorce.