Episode 133: Christina Bieber Lake: C.S. Lewis, American Literature and How Storytelling Reveals God

Dr Christina Bieber Lake is an American author. Now retired, she was the Clyde S. Kilby professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where she taught classes in contemporary American literature and literary theory. Her books include Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood (University of Notre Dame Press), a book that draws upon theological resources as it investigates, through fiction, the motivations for human enhancement. Prophets of the Posthuman won the 2014 Aldersgate prize for integrative Christian scholarship. She followed this up with the brilliant Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. Dr Bieber Lake frequently contributes essays on fiction, ethics, and film to Books & Culture, Comment Magazine, and The Cresset, as well as scholarly journals. You can read some of her articles here: Christina Bieber Lake - Comment MagazineShe is a frequent contributor to scholarly work on Flannery O'Connor, and her book The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor (Mercer University Press), describes how O’Connor viewed fiction as an ideal way to fight Gnostic dualisms prevalent in American intellectual and religious life. Her work on teaching as a vocation includes The Flourishing Teacher. Learn more at her website, here:https://christinabieberlake.com/