2008 Speakers
alan jacobs
Alan Jacobs explores what he calls “the intersection of literature and Christian theology” in his works. Jacobs, who was born and spent most of his years in the South, now teaches English at Wheaton College in Illinois. His most recent book, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (2005), won the Christianity Today 2006 Book Award in the history and biography category as well as the 2006 John Pollack Award for Christian Biography. Some of his other books include Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling (2004), A Theology of Reading: the Hermeneutics of Love (2001), and A Visit to Vanity Fair and Other Moral Essays (2001). He is set to release Original Sin: A Cultural History in April and Looking Before and After, a book about Christian life and testimony, in May.
Speaker Links
Visit Alan Jacobs’s homepage.
Listen to Jacobs speak on a variety of subjects on Mars Hill Audio.
Kim Lawton of PBS interviews Jacobs.
Read some of Jacobs's articles from his column, “Rumors of Glory," in Books and Culture.
Visit Jacobs' blog