New academic appointment marks an Oxford first Fans of the Narnia novels can easily find a C.S. Lewis walking tour of Oxford, taking in Magdalen College, where he was a fellow, St Mary the Virgin Church where he delivered his famous “The Weight of Glory” wartime sermon, and the Eagle and Child pub (or “the Bird and Baby”) where he would meet Tolkien and the rest of the “Inklings”. But anyone keen to study Lewis’ writings on Christianity would have been hard pressed to do so in Oxford – until now. Alister McGrath, author of C.S. Lewis: a life, the highly praised biography of the man who wrote not only The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but also Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, has changed all that. He has recently been appointe