C. S. Lewis biographer Dr. Alan Jacobs will receive the 2006 John Pollock Award for Christian Biography on Tuesday Oct. 10 at Samford University. The award, presented by Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School, recognizes Jacob’s book, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, as the most distinguished Christian biography book in the past year.
The public is invited to the award ceremony, which will take place during the university’s chapel service at 11:00 am. Jacabs will also present a talk on Lewis during his award ceremony.
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C.S. Lewis Biographer Alan Jacobs To Receive Beeson Divinity Honor
C.S. Lewis biographer Dr. Alan Jacobs will receive the 2006 John Pollock Award for Christian Biography Tuesday ( Oct. 10 ) at Samford University.
The award, presented annually by Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School, recognizes Jacobs’ book, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, as the most distinguished Christian biography of the past year.
Jacobs will receive the Pollock Award during Beeson divinity school’s regular chapel service at 11 a.m. in Andrew Gerow Hodges Chapel. He will present a talk on scholar/Christian writer Lewis, who is best known for his children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia. The public is invited.
Jacobs, professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois, is also the author of Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling, A Theology of Reading: the Hermeneutics of Love, A Visit to Vanity Fair and Other Moral Essays, Bad to the Bone: A Cultural History of Original Sin, and the forthcoming Life Genres: Persons in Narrative Theology.
An Alabama native who grew up in Birmingham, Jacobs is a 1980 graduate of the University of Alabama. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
The Pollock Award is named for the British author of more than 30 books on religion, the majority of them biographies of Christian leaders. Beeson Divinity School established the award in 2001.