Jerry Root

Jerry Root is a Professor at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and a visiting Professor at Biola University. He attended Whittier College in Whittier, California where he was awarded 7 Varsity Letters in football and wrestling. He started for his college championship team for three years and as a running back he never once fumbled and never lost a yard all the times he carried the football. This meant lots of first down carries and touchdowns. He played some form of American football until he was 44 years old. Jerry received a Master of Divinity degree from Talbot Graduate School of Theology and earned his Ph.D. through the Open University at the Oxford Center for Mission Studies. He has been studying C. S. Lewis and topics constellating around Lewis for 50 years, as well as teaching Lewis for 40 years. He has lectured on Lewis topics at 78 Universities in 18 countries. Besides his many books, Jerry has written numerous articles about C. S. Lewis and evangelism published in other books, journals, and periodicals.

Jerry has been married to Claudia since 1975. They have 4 married children and 15 grandchildren. He loves virtual fear including sky diving, spelunking, swimming with sharks, roller-coasters, flying in vintage airplanes, hammerhead stalls in biplanes, and turbulence on airplanes.