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C.S. Lewis: Beyond the Screwtape Letters
April 4, 2001
Kathleen Norris writer, poet, essayist
Armand Nicholi writer, psychiatrist, Harvard
Peter Kreeft professor, philosophy, Boston College

A poet, a psychiatrist, and a philosopher discuss the writings of C.S. Lewis, most notably The Screwtape Letters. (Part 2 of 2)

Norris, a best-selling poet, essayist and Benedictine oblate, Nicholi, who teaches a class about Lewis and Freud at Harvard Medical School, and Kreeft, a Boston College philosophy professor and Catholic apologist discuss the relevance of Screwtape for young readers today and the impact of C.S. Lewis' work on world culture and literary landscape.

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