Editorial Note

Beginning this past year with the release of volume 35 (2018), VII is now available in both print and digital formats. The feedback of our subscribers to this new digital format has been encouraging. In light of this response, we are moving forward with plans to increase the online availability of not only current issues but also back issues of VII. Soon, all volumes of VII will be available digitally at http://journals.wheaton.edu/vii. In 2019, both Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing—Co-Directors of the Marion E. Wade Center and Co-Holders of the Wade Chair of Christian Thought—delivered their inaugural lectures. In March, Crystal demon- strated the impact of cinema on the literary sensibilities of Dorothy L. Sayers, using unpublished letters and manuscripts held here at the Wade Center. We are pleased to publish her lecture, “Through the Screen: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Journey into New Worlds,” in this issue of VII. Look for David’s lecture on the different ways that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien used imagery in their fantasy literature in the next volume of VII. Though VII obviously focuses on the Wade Center’s seven authors, we also occasionally highlight individuals who impacted their lives. This issue features previously unpublished content and articles related to two important figures from the life of C.S. Lewis: Dr. Robert E. Havard and . First, Sarah O’Dell analyzes Havard’s unedited appendix to C.S. Lewis’s , examining how Lewis edited this note on “Pain and Behaviour in Medical Practice” written by his close friend, fellow Inkling, and personal physician. Next, Andrew Barron discusses the centrality of Joy Davidman Lewis’s Jewishness on her sense of identity. Accompanying his article is Davidman’s previously unpublished sermon fragment and notes titled “Chosen for What? (The Problem of the Christian Jew).” Volume 36 also includes in-depth articles about our core authors and their literary work. Joel Heck argues that C.S. Lewis’s work on the Anglican Commission to Revise the Psalter was “the crowning achievement of his public church life.” Mike Wilhelm explores the ways in which George MacDonald utilizes imagery from Dante in his novel Lilith “to bring repen- tance to a young Victorian mind stunted by scientism.” Finally, visit VII’s online home to read an intriguing theory about the real-life inspiration for the character of Jane Studdock in by David C. Downing as well as a number of book reviews. We are very grateful for our contributors and subscribers. Without you, VII would not be able to celebrate and continue to expand the legacy of our seven authors. Marjorie Lamp Mead Executive Editor

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Acknowledgements

All works are gratefully used with permission: quotes from “The Literary History of Journeys to the Other World” and unpublished letters by Dorothy L. Sayers with permission by David Higham Associates, London; “Pain and Behaviour in Medical Practice” with the permission of the Havard family, copyright © John Havard, 2019; “Chosen for What? (The Problem of the Christian Jew)” by Joy Davidman © copyright The Estate of Joy Davidman, 2019; quotes from unpublished letters by David Gresham © copyright The Estate of David Gresham, 2019; quotes from unpublished letters by C.S. Lewis © copyright C.S. Lewis Pte Ltd., 2019. Yearbook photos of Joy Davidman used by kind permission of Hunter College, NYC. The editors would also like to thank Laura Schmidt for her archival support and Leah McMichael for her editorial assistance.

Online Content

VII is available online at journals.wheaton.edu/vii. Readers may purchase online subscription packages, in addition to print subscriptions, at our new digital home. The following open access articles and reviews are available online:

• Article: Is Mary Jane?— Mary Neylan as a Model for Jane Studdock in That Hideous Strength by David C. Downing. • Book Reviews: Stephanie L. Derrick, The Fame of C.S. Lewis: A Contro- versialist's Reception in Britain and America. Reviewed by Suzanne Bray. • Rolland Hein, Doors In: The Fairy Tale World of George MacDonald. Reviewed by Monika B. Hilder. • Edith M. Humphrey, Further Up and Further In: Orthodox Conversations with C.S. Lewis on Scripture and . Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Andrew Cuneo. • Timothy Larsen, George MacDonald in the Age of : Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment. Reviewed by Olga Lukmanova. • George M. Marsden, C.S. Lewis’s . Reviewed by Grayson Carter. • Aren Roukema, Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams. Reviewed by David Llewellyn Dodds. • Lesley Willis Smith, The Downstretched Hand: Individual Development in George MacDonald's Major Fantasies. Reviewed by Bethany Bear Hebbard. • Jennifer Agee, Systematic Mythology: Imaging the Invisible. Reviewed by Aaron M. Hill. • Booknotes: Janice Brown, The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C.S. Lewis, and T.S. Eliot. Editorial 3

Concerning the Contributors Andrew Barron

Andrew Barron (B.S., Florida Institute of Technology, M.A., Fuller Theolog- ical Seminary; DMin., Wycliffe College University of Toronto) is the Director of Jews for in Canada. Raised in Brooklyn in a Jewish family, Andrew is now a follower of Jesus. He is a writer, teacher, preacher, evangelist, and martial artist, and serves as adjunct faculty at Tyndale College in Toronto and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Andrew lives in Toronto with his wife Laura and has three children.

Crystal Downing

Crystal Downing (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is the Co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center and co-holder of the Marion E. Wade Chair of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, IL: a position she shares with her husband, David C. Downing. She previously served as Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. Crystal is the author of several books on the relationship between faith and culture, such as Salvation from Cinema: The Medium Is the Message (Routledge, 2016) and Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers (Palgrave, 2004). Crystal has published nearly eighty essays on topics ranging from the Amish to Jane Austen, including essays in VII such as “The Orthodoxology of Dorothy L. Sayers” in Volume 22 (2005) and a review essay on “Feminist Nay-Sayers: Are Women Human?” in Volume 24 (2007).

Joel Heck

Joel Heck serves Concordia University Texas, in Austin, as Professor of Theology after nine years at Concordia as Vice President of Academic Services. Previously he served as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Valley Park, Missouri, and Professor of Religion at Concordia University Wisconsin. He holds a Th.D. in Exegetical Theology from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and teaches various theology courses at Concordia University Texas, including Old and New Testament, Reformation, and C.S. Lewis, including the course “Narnia meets Middle-earth.” He is the author or editor of four- teen books, most recently From Atheism to Christianity: The Story of C.S. Lewis. 4 VII

Sarah O’Dell

Sarah O’Dell is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Cali- fornia, Irvine, where she is enrolled in a dual-degree M.D. and Ph.D. (MSTP) program. She received her M.A. in English from Azusa Pacific University, where she completed a thesis titled “The Poetics of Memory: Literature, Imagination, and Alzheimer's Disease.” While at APU, she also studied with Inklings scholar Diana Glyer. In addition to , she is interested in the intersections between medicine and literature; correspondingly, her work has appeared in Mythlore and the Journal of Medical Humanities. She is currently working on a book-length study of physician and Inkling Robert E. Havard. Further updates can be found on her website, sarahodellmdphd.com.

Michael Wayne Wilhelm

Mike Wilhelm holds an M.A. in Biblical Interpretation from Lubbock Chris- tian University, and is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) of Faulkner University’s Great Books Honors College. He is writing his dissertation on the imagina- tive apologetics of George MacDonald’s Lilith. Mike is the senior chaplain at Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch near Amarillo, Texas.