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Review Of Narnia And The Fields Of Arbol: The Environmental Vision Of C. S. Lewis, Charles Huttar

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Review of Matthew Dickerson and David O’Hara, Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009). xiii + 304 pages. $35.00. ISBN 9780813125220.

Review Of C. S. Lewis And A Problem Of Evil: An Investigation Of A Pervasive Theme, Bruce R. Johnson

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Review of Jerry Root, C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil: An Investigation of a Pervasive Theme (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2009). xxii + 284. $32.00. ISBN 9781556357206.

Review Of C. S. Lewis: A Guide To His Theology, Gregory M. Anderson

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Review of David G. Clark, C. S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology (Malden, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2007). 200 pages. $22.95. ISBN: 9781405158848.

Review Of Remembering Our Future: Explorations In Deep Church, P. H. Brazier

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Andrew Walker and Luke Bretherton (eds.), Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep Church (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2007). 224 pages. $24.99. ISBN: 9781842275047.

Review Of The Magician’S Book: A Skeptic’S Adventures In Narnia, D. G. Kehl

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Review of Laura Miller, The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008). 311 pages. $25.99. ISBN 9780316017633.

Review Of The Rhetoric Of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’ Nonfiction Prose, James T. Como

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Review of Gary L. Tandy, The Rhetoric of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’ Nonfiction Prose (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009). 135 pages. $39.95. ISBN: 9780873389730.

Review Of The Inklings Of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, And Their Friends, Grayson Carter

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Review of Harry Lee Poe [text] and James Ray Veneman [photography], The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Their Friends (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009). 176 pages. $24.99. ISBN: 9780310285038.

Review Of Why I Believe In Narnia: 33 Reviews & Essays On The Life & Works Of C. S. Lewis, James P. Helfers

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Review of James Como, Why I Believe in Narnia: 33 Reviews & Essays on the Life & Works of C. S. Lewis (Wayne, PA: Zossima Press, 2008). 288 pages. $15.99. ISBN: 9780972322188.

Review Of C. S. Lewis: Views From Wake Forest. Essays On C. S. Lewis By Walter Hooper, James Como, And Many Others, David G. Clark

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Review of Michael Travers (ed.), C. S. Lewis: Views from Wake Forest. Essays on C. S. Lewis by Walter Hooper, James Como, and many others (Wayne, PA: Zossima Press, 2008). 288 pages. $23.00. ISBN: 9780972322157.

The Screwtape Letters: The Play, José Maria J. Yulo

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Review of C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Staring Max McLean and Karen Wight. Adapted for the stage by Max McLean and Jeff Fiske. Produced by the Fellowship for the Performing Arts, Morristown, New Jersey. Performed at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California, on October 1, 2009.

Interview With Walter Hooper, Mark Neal

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Interview with Walter Hooper

Review Essay: C. S. Lewis And The Search For Rational Religion, Victor Reppert

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Review of John Beversluis, C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. Revised and Updated (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007). 363 pages. $21.98. ISBN: 9781591025313.

Hints, Scott Schuleit

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Review Essay: C. S. Lewis On The Final Frontier: Science And The Supernatural In The Space Trilogy, Sørina Higgins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Sanford Schwartz, C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). 256 pages. $27.95. ISBN: 9780195374728.

C.S. Lewis' Aesthetics, Adam Barkman

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

While some might be tempted to think that C. S. Lewis wrote more on aesthetic themes than on anything else they would be mistaken. For aesthetics has to do with broad, theoretical questions concerning beauty and art, while Lewis’ writings on literary history, literary criticism, and, to a lesser degree, literary theory tend to be more specific. In addition, although people might point to Lewis’ vast outpourings on myth as evidence of his intense interest in aesthetics, they would only be partly correct. As this author has argued elsewhere,1 even though myth touches beauty and can indeed be made into …

The Lore Of Wood And Stone: Magic In The Chronicles Of Narnia And The Lord Of The Rings, Louis Markos

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Lewis and Tolkien were apologists for magic in an age where the lore of wood and stone had all but been crushed between two opposing forces: secular technologies that seek to conquer nature and force it to serve the whims of man, and Christian churches that see in magic only the evil sorcery of Simon Magus and the Witch of Endor. In The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings, modern readers are presented with a different incantation: a magic that shatters the anti-humanistic side of technology while affirming the deep and abiding creativity of the Triune God.

Why Father Christmas Appears In Narnia, P. H. Brazier

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

"Though Lewis did not explain the presence of Father Christmas in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, given his methodology of “supposal” it is reasonable to formulate an explanation in these terms, rather than seeking allegorical coincidences; clearly, in the context of the internal coherence within the story, this explanation makes a certain sense. Father Christmas’ presence in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe may at first generate confusion and skepticism from those who fail to see that he is a “gift-bearer” sent by Aslan. In Platonic terms, however, he is ultimately a gift-bearer sent by God, Aslan’s …

What C.S. Lewis Really Did To "Cupid And Psyche", Charles Huttar

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

The story of Lewis's engagement, starting at age 18, with Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche.

De Desciptione Temporum: Revisiting C. S. Lewis' Inaugural Lecture, Jean Bethge Elshtain

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A discussion of Lewis's lecture giving a "description of the times," published in C. S. Lewis, They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (London, 1962). Excerpt: "The third and no doubt most salient point for our contemporary consideration is that the “christening of Europe,” deplored by some (like Gibbon, the “humanistic unbeliever”), seemed a unique, irreversible event. “But we have seen the opposite process,” Lewis writes. To be sure, “the un-christening of Europe in our time is not quite complete; neither was her christening in the Dark Ages,” but it proceeds apace. Consequently, while our “ancestors divided history into …

From Vocal Agnostic To Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis And C.E.M. Joad, Joel Heck

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After a brief consideration of Joad’s life and career this essay will examine the events that led to his return to the Christian faith, and the extent of Lewis’ influence on it. As we will see, Joad and Lewis’ interest in philosophy and the world of ideas, their reading of one another’s work and the mutual respect that emerged out of that effort, their published debate over the issue of theodicy in 1941, their lively debate over the merits of Christianity at the Socratic Club in 1944, and their exchange over the troubling issue of animal pain in 1950, comprise …

Frontmatter (Volume 3, Issue 1), Grayson Carter

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Overlap Of Cognates In The Bilingual Mental Lexicon: A Cognate Continuum Model, Ashlynn Everett, Juhi Singh, Mila Tasseva-Kurkchieva

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Purpose: Cognates (i.e., words that share meanings and pronunciations in more than one language) are uniquely suited to provide insight into the bilingual mental lexicon due to their overlapping nature. Previous researchers have used a cognate/non-cognate distinction (Dijkstra & Van Heuven, 2002) or measurements of orthographic changes in words (Peeters et. al, 2013) to evaluate this overlap. By comparison, this study aimed to examine how phonological and syntactic differences between cognates impact language processing in bilinguals.

Methods: Researchers categorized cognates by level of phonological overlap as identified by listeners’ ratings of similarity. These categories were described as 1) true cognates …

How Does Midwinter Rain Affect Western Montana’S Mountain Snowpack?, Gus B. Kauffman

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

A high-confidence effect of anthropogenic climate change is an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. One type of these events which is important to western Montana is midwinter rain, or rain on snow. In coastal states, where the mountain snowpack sits near the melting point, rain on snow can cause massive melt and flooding and diminish the snowpack residents rely on for drinking water and hydroelectric power when it melts in the spring. In Montana, however, the snowpack is typically much colder and more resistant to the devastating effects of these events. The purpose of this …

My Internship Experience With Churches For Middle East Peace, Ethan Schneider

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

A presentation detailing my experience as an Advocacy Intern for Churches for Middle East Peace, and my further experience in Loyola's Washington, D.C. program.

Characterizing The Enzymatic Activity And Thermostability Of Protein Β-Glucosidase B (Bglb) Mutant Y118f, Sofia Ponce, Kayla Gordon

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

The purpose of this experiment was to characterize the functionality of BglB mutants and generate datasets to train artificial intelligence algorithms to predict mutant functionality. It was hypothesized that mutant Y118F would demonstrate decreased catalytic efficiency and thermostability compared to WT based on the predictive capacities of Foldit, a predictive modeling software. Foldit predicted decreased local interactions such as hydrogen bonds for mutant Y118F, suggesting decreased stability. Experimentation was performed to analyze the enzymatic activity and thermostability of mutant Y118F.

Mechanistic And Reactivity Studies Of Iron Complexes Supported By Cnc-Pincer Ligand, Julian Lomeli

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Ammonia production is a process that is integral to a variety of industries ranging from agriculture, textiles, and pesticide production. The Haber-Bosch process has supplied the global demand for ammonia since the beginning of the 20th century, but presents the issue of being incredibly energetically costly. The catalytic reduction of ambient atmospheric dinitrogen is a potential solution to the issue presented by the Haber-Bosch process and through the use of organometallic compounds inspired by the bacterial family of nitrogenases, there is potential for much more energy efficient production of ammonia. A series of iron complexes bearing CNC-pincer ligands have previously …

Postpartum Depression Screening In Federally Qualified Health Centers (Fqhcs), Gabrielle Borkorm, Sandi Tenfelde

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

For new parents, postpartum depression can be a significant problem. Patients at risk for postpartum depression are typically assessed using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression scale, which is among the most accurate ways of identifying them. In recent years, there has been concern about the frequency with which birthing persons should undergo postpartum depression evaluations, as well as whether these evaluations are conducted in a culturally appropriate manner, considering that there are birthing persons of all races and ethnicities. This study is a secondary data analysis of clinic level data that was collected from 2012-2017. The data refers to 31,435 birthing …

Interning With A Criminal Defense Attorney In Chicago, Nicole Pysz

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

My experience working as a legal intern for Massarell Law, LLC and what I learned.

Analysis Of The Babies Antibiotic Stewardship Improvement Collaborative (Basic) Initiative Launched By Ilpqc, Faiza Sheikha

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

My presentation revolves around a health initiative launched by Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative (ILPQC), which is a nationally recognized statewide network of hospital teams, perinatal clinicians, patients, public health leaders, and policymakers committed to improving health care and outcomes for mothers and babies across Illinois. The initiative I am analyzing is called Babies Antibiotic Stewardship Improvement Collaborative (BASIC) aimed to provide appropriate antibiotics, to appropriate newborns, for the appropriate length of time. My presentation is focused on analyzing the improvement of specific hospital measures such as urbanization, race, and Medicaid patients as a result of this initiative.

Climate Education Course Proposal For School Of Sustainability, Evelyn Winebrenner, Abbey Y. Haynes, Charlotte Roos, Stephanie Udzielak, Rachel Maria

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Seeking to address the lack of eco-literacy, we developed a syllabus for a course at Loyola University Chicago with the intended purpose of instilling climate knowledge to others. Through our own experiences studying environmental sustainability, we shared the same issue of lacking inadequate communication skills about climate change for different audiences. To develop the course structure and content, we gathered knowledge from community experts in environmental education and researched what other schools have implemented in the environmental education field. Our product is a syllabus, learning outcomes, and rationale for a new course devoted to teaching Loyola undergraduates how to educate …