

“Hidden in Plain Sight: Tolkien's Influences from Children's Literature and Popular Fiction” Title TBA Subject: MacDonald’s “The Wise Woman” Lewis and The Screwtape Letters: A Devil's Guide to Communication” “Tolkien, Tragedy, and the Gift of Beauty” Title TBA Subject: MacDonald’s Baptismal Imagery “After Ten Years: Return to Planet Narnia” Lewis in light of the life and writings of G.A. “Breaking the Spell: Fairy Stories in the Secular Age” ‘Creation and Incarnation in Bonaventure and Lewis’ ‘Philip Pullman on CS Lewis: What’s Wrong with Him?’ ‘Tolkien's Modern Sources: Dunsany, Shorthouse, and a Mythology for England’
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Lewis on the Perils of Professional Theology’ ‘ "You Have Never Met A Mere Mortal" – C.S. ‘The Medieval Model and the Christian Future’ ‘What has Anscombe to do with Narnia? Did the debate about Miracles lead to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?’ ‘One Hundred Years of Poetry: Marking the Centenary of Lewis’s First Publication’ ‘Wandering with the Wise: Etymological Reflections on JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings’ ‘The Living Unmasked: Divine Fraud in Lewis’ Theology’ ‘Irresistible Hilarity: The Theological Humor of C.S. ‘Ascesis and Ecstasy: The Apologetics of Desire in C.S. ‘Myth and True Myth in the writings and conversations of C.S.Lewis’ ‘Poetry and Prayer: Some poetic reflections and responses to C.S.Lewis and George Herbert’ ‘Truth, Story and Pattern in the works of Dorothy L. [Due to pandemic restrictions, no meetings took place during ‘Sehnsucht as Signpost: The Autobiographical Impulse of C. Rowan Williams (The Lord Williams of Oystermouth) ‘From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with My Nine Year-Old Self ’ What Owen Barfield Taught His Fellow Inklings ‘What Do They Teach Them in These Schools?’ An Ecocritical Reading of The Chronicles of Narnia Chesterton and Natural Theology as a Medium of Communication We will enjoy the art of reading aloud as well as a lively discussion about the selected passages. Tolkien, any of the Inklings, their predecessors, or related writers. Please Bring a Book: Please bring your favourite passage from C.S. Reflections of a Theologian and Apologist Lewis: How I discovered him, and what I found in him. Lewis’s Most Philosophical Work, But Is It Christian?Ĭ. “How to End a Christian Story: A Defense of Lewis’s Endings” Philip Neri and Middle-earth: The Oratorian Influence on Tolkien’s Spirituality and Writings” Lewis’ Case for Realism and Long Narrative Poetry” Lewis and the Misappropriation of Christian ritual in Fascist Dictatorships” “Secret Fire: The Hidden Climax of The Lord of the Rings” “Owen Barfield on the Incarnation and the Poetic Imagination”Ĥ0th Anniversary Celebration at the Magdalen Arms
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Walk to the Perch Pub from Pusey House - starting at 7.15pm “The Imprecations Are Staggering: CS Lewis and the Psalms of Severity” “Reflections on Mere Christianity on its Platinum Jubilee” “The Anscombe-Lewis Debate: A Model for Christian Truth-Seeking” “Not ‘About’ Anything but Itself: Tolkien and the Purpose of Gratuitous Art” “Final Participation in Piranesi: Owen Barfield's Evolution of Consciousness in Susannah Clarke's Literary Imagination” Lewis on Friendship: The Charges of Sexism, Secrecy, and Snobbery” “ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on its Platinum Jubilee”

Iron Sharpening Iron: Tolkien and Lewis’s Ecumenical Friendship and Mutual InfluenceĪ Balloon Debate between Dr Michael Ward and Dr Holly OrdwayĪ Narnian Vision of the Atonement A Defense of the Ransom Theory Tolkien, Cosmopoiesis, and the Imagination with a Thousand Faces If you have termcards covering missing events in the archive, please let us know.įacing the challenges of new term, thoughts from Narnia We currently do not have details for all events before Michaelmas 2015.
