Tell Me that Story Again: How The Pilgrim’s Regress Wrote C. S. Lewis (Webinar)
Price range: $18.00 through $50.00
“As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” This quotation from Proverbs 25:25 follows the title of C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, and it evokes the by now very Lewisian idea of sehnsucht, that sweet, painful longing for some unnamable thing just out of reach. Lewis, in his preface to the third edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress, confirms that this Sweet Desire is what his allegory was all about. He there asks, what does the “desire which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of a bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World’s End, the opening lines of Kubla Khan, the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves” have to do with each other?
The story that follows is his attempt to answer that question. But so is his Space Trilogy, his Narnia Chronicles, and most certainly Till We Have Faces, not to mention The Allegory of Love and possibly all of his scholarly essays. In fact, if one would like to understand Lewis’s writings—a compendium that sprawls across decades and genres—one would do very well to start with The Pilgrim’s Regress. Neglected by many scholars as problematic, the story in fact shows in clean, crisp lines the imaginative world of C. S. Lewis and carries within it the seeds of every other story he ever wrote.
In this webinar, Jenn Rogers will help tease out the connections of this story to the rest of C. S. Lewis’s writings while providing imaginative context for the “Allegorical Apology for Romanticism, Reason, and Christianity” that Lewis’s subtitle heralded. Hopefully, after this webinar, you will be encouraged to join Lewis on the great pilgrim’s regress.
Instructor: Jenn Rogers
Meet Time: This webinar will stream live on April 27th, 2026 at 7:00 PM ET, and will be made available as a recording with lifetime access the next day in your HHL customer account.
Individual Price: $18 (Non-Refundable)
Family Price for 3 or more students: $50 (Non-Refundable)
How to access the class: After purchase, the link to the live session as well as the eventual recording of the webinar will be made available in the customer’s HHL account under “My Courses” with lifetime access.
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“As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” This quotation from Proverbs 25:25 follows the title of C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, and it evokes the by now very Lewisian idea of sehnsucht, that sweet, painful longing for some unnamable thing just out of reach. Lewis, in his preface to the third edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress, confirms that this Sweet Desire is what his allegory was all about. He there asks, what does the “desire which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of a bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World’s End, the opening lines of Kubla Khan, the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves” have to do with each other?
The story that follows is his attempt to answer that question. But so is his Space Trilogy, his Narnia Chronicles, and most certainly Till We Have Faces, not to mention The Allegory of Love and possibly all of his scholarly essays. In fact, if one would like to understand Lewis’s writings—a compendium that sprawls across decades and genres—one would do very well to start with The Pilgrim’s Regress. Neglected by many scholars as problematic, the story in fact shows in clean, crisp lines the imaginative world of C. S. Lewis and carries within it the seeds of every other story he ever wrote.
In this webinar, Jenn Rogers will help tease out the connections of this story to the rest of C. S. Lewis’s writings while providing imaginative context for the “Allegorical Apology for Romanticism, Reason, and Christianity” that Lewis’s subtitle heralded. Hopefully, after this webinar, you will be encouraged to join Lewis on the great pilgrim’s regress.
Instructor: Jenn Rogers
Meet Time: This webinar will stream live on April 27th, 2026 at 7:00 PM ET, and will be made available as a recording with lifetime access the next day in your HHL customer account.
Individual Price: $18 (Non-Refundable)
Family Price for 3 or more students: $50 (Non-Refundable)
How to access the class: After purchase, the link to the live session as well as the eventual recording of the webinar will be made available in the customer’s HHL account under “My Courses” with lifetime access.
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