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Inter-War Eros and Sanctified Heroes: Connecting the Inklings through Myth, Language, Love and Meaning-Making in a Modernist Age (A Brief Discussion of Auden’s Poetry and Barfield’s Poetic Diction)

Primary Texts: Owen Barfield, selections from Poetic Diction (PDF on Connect) Secondary Texts: Michel Piret, “W. H. Auden and the Inklings,” C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society, edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, Brendan … Continue reading

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See See My Clay-Mate (or Mine, My Own, My Precious): Sub-Creation, Sacrifice and Sainthood in Williams’s All Hallows Eve

Texts: Charles Williams, All Hallow’s Eve, Chapters VIII-X “The Magical Creation,” “Telephone Conversations,” and “The Acts of the City” Discussion Leader: Student Facilitator et all. Discussion Questions: Williams’s novel is disorienting; it oscillates between illusionary, indistinct language and the realism of everyday life in … Continue reading

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Sex and the City-Scapes: Demonic Possession and Divine Conception in Williams’s All Hallows Eve

Texts: Charles Williams, All Hallow’s Eve (Chapters IV-V “The Dream,” “The Hall by Holborn” and Chapters V-VI “The Wise Water,” “The Magical Sacrifice”) Discussion Question Leader: Student Facilitator et all. Discussion Questions: Williams’s idea of Romantic Theology is founded on … Continue reading

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Spirit, Semiotics and the Occult in Charles Williams’s All Hallows Eve

Primary Texts: Charles Williams, All Hallow’s Eve, Chapters I-III “The New Life,” “The Beetles,” “Clerk Simon” Secondary Texts:  Paul Fiddes, “Charles Williams and the Problem of Evil,” in C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society, edited … Continue reading

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Ghosts, Spirits, Bus-Stops and Open Plains in Lewis’s The Great Divorce

Please note that today is an informal discussion of Lewis’s works, as well as our three remaining Inkling Investigation project presentations. Discussion questions and facilitation will not be graded, but are here for reference.  Texts: C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce  … Continue reading

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Divinity, Demons and Patients in Dire Need: Contemplating Screwtape and Wormwood in Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters

Texts: C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Discussion Leaders: Marcy Nelson and John Wragg Discussion Questions: (Ice breaker) The Screwtape Letters can be a very personal work that probes into our souls and heart and forces us to ask difficult … Continue reading

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Compassion, Doctrine, and Christian Love: Lewis on Mere Christianity

Texts: Lewis, Mere Christianity; Chapters “XIV. Checkmate” and “XV. The Beginning” in Surprised by Joy Discussion Leaders: (no leaders for this day) Discussion Questions: 1. Lewis writes that all fields of study are directed, supported and ultimately find their source … Continue reading

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Miracles, Modernity, Myopia and Mysticism: Considering Lewis’s Essays and Lectures, from God in the Dock and An Experiment in Criticism

Texts:  C.S. Lewis, “Myth Become Fact,” in God in the Dock (as well as other selections, if you are curious), and Chapter V: Myth, from An Experiment in Criticism (PDF on Connect) Discussion Leaders: Justin Carless and Kathryn Ney Discussion Questions: Hartt describes … Continue reading

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Sanctity, Legitimacy, and the Right to Rule: Selections from Roger Lancelyn Green’s King Arthur and His Knights

Texts: Selections from Roger Lancelyn Green’s King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Discussion Leaders: Daphne de Grandpre and Kathryn Ney Discussion Questions: Avalone/ Avallónë: Dúnedain, Divine Right of Kings, and Proximity to the Divine In our previous … Continue reading

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Coming Full Circle: Akallabêth, and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

Texts: J. R. R. Tolkien, “Akallabêth,” and “Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age” Discussion Leaders: Valen Tam Discussion Questions: Of Earendil’s two sons, Elrond chose elven immortality while Elros chose the mortal life of humanity. When Arwen of … Continue reading

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