ABSTRACT
C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man was originally commissioned as a series of three evening lectures, in which Lewis was asked to "treat of the relation between religion and contemporary developments of thought". With such a broad brief, it is not surprising that the text is of interest to those from a range of academic disciplines, including religious studies, theology, philosophy, and education. The Abolition of Man does not introduce a new philosophy so much as it defends a traditional one, and so, academically, it is not seen as playing a part in the evolution of or debate about European philosophy. Academics who have published work on Lewis since 2000 include Alister McGrath, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Lewis's close friend Owen Barfield, and Michael Ward, who is a senior research fellow at Blackfriars, a center for the study of theology in Oxford.
