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We have with us today, Father Michael Ward. He is Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, professor of apologetics

at Houston Baptist University.

He's the author of numerous things, including Planet Narnia, the Seven Heavens in the

imagination of C.S. Lewis and co-editor of the Cambridge companion to C.S. Lewis. His new book is

after humanity, a guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man. That's our topic today. Welcome,

Father Ward. Thank you, Mark. Glad to be with you. First, maybe I should ask you sort of a general question.

You're devoting the entire volume to this one book. It's a close commentary.

Where does Lewis's volume rank, would you say, broadly among thinkers today and maybe in the Anglo-American

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