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C.S. Lewis: Christology and Cosmology, Hörbuch, Digital, 259min
Peek into the mesmerizing imagination of C. S. Lewis with the world's leading authority on the beloved author. With more than 100 million copies printed in 47 languages, The Chronicles of Narnia is one of the best-selling book series ever. Its enduring success is no accident, but rather the result of C.S. Lewis's extraordinary imaginative skill. Few understand the full cosmological and theological depths of Lewis's world. In Christology, Cosmology, and C. S. Lewis, you will discover new dimensions that will enrich your enjoyment of these classic tales. Your presenter is Oxford University's Dr. Michael Ward, an award-winning author whom The Times called "the foremost living Lewis scholar." Dr. Ward's 12 lectures reveal the secret of The Chronicles: a creative plan that is breathtaking in its ingenuity, humility, and spiritual profundity. A literary scholar who worked at Oxford and Cambridge, Lewis loved medieval literature that "at first looks planless, though all is planned." In Narnia, he imitates this example, structuring the series to embody the seven planets of the medieval cosmos. Believing in the importance of hiddenness in literature and theology, Lewis kept secret his imaginative blueprint. Once you unearth the mystery of Narnia, you will find new treasures buried in these magical tales. Looking at Lewis's works with a fresh perspective, you will find their Christian wisdom and brilliant storytelling more intriguing than ever before. Let the creative genius of C. S. Lewis inspire you today. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/nykm/000330/bk_nykm_000330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Wishing You Were Here: Soul Mates, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min
Travel back in time to 1957 for a little drama, a few life-or-death moments, and a lot of rock 'n' roll romance in the young-adult time-travel romance Wishing You Were Here. Ambitious music fanatic Callie Reinard is headed to college with plans to run her own radio station one day. Her younger sister thinks Callie's been focusing so much on grand plans for the future that she's not living in the present. When an accidental wish sends Callie back to 1957 to save music sensation Joey Tempo from an untimely death, her sister's criticism proves true. Callie finds herself planless, floundering in a situation for which she's had no preparation. Hard as she tries to fit in, her modern way of thinking causes nothing but trouble for her and everyone around her, including that charismatic singer she saved from death. He may be her age, but he's five decades out of her league and already engaged to a stunning, sophisticated beauty queen--someone much more comfortable with life in 1957 than Callie will ever be. So what's a girl to do? Follow her heart or follow her plans and dreams? Either way Callie's in for a change. Either she needs to change her dreams for the future or change her mind about what her heart wants because getting out of 1957 isn't as easy as getting in was. At least not without losing the one thing she never knew was missing: her soul mate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samantha Goldman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030352/bk_acx0_030352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Aldous Huxley , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. – Aldous Huxley A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Great Britain’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 19th century England, few families were as accomplished as the Huxley family, which included prominent figures in the arts, sciences, and literature, but the most famous of them all would come of age in the early 20th century. Aldous Huxley was one of the most unique intellectuals of his age, but he was also one of the greatest. While he was controversial for dabbling with mysticism, a belief in parapsychology and the supernatural, and for advocating the use of psychedelic drugs, nobody could deny his abilities. Having grown up among the Huxley family, Aldous was well-versed in everything from botany to zoology, which helped him write one of the seminal futuristic science fiction novels, Brave New World, which he claimed sprang forth from him because of his experience in "an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence". Brave New World is still Huxley’s best known work, and it has often drawn comparisons to the works of H.G. Wells and his friend George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The futuristic novel, which also doubled as social commentary, was full of the kind of biting satire that had already gotten Huxley hired as a social satirist and contributor to publications like Vanity Fair. In the years after World War II, Huxley’s pessimism in the current state of civilization would only grow, and he would become a mo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101372/bk_acx0_101372_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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