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Inklings Forever Volume 4 A Collection of Essays Presented at the Fourth Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Article 1 Lewis & Friends 3-2004 Full Issue 2004 (Volume IV) Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/inklings_forever Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, History Commons, Philosophy Commons, and the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (2004) "Full Issue 2004 (Volume IV)," Inklings Forever: Vol. 4 , Article 1. Available at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/inklings_forever/vol4/iss1/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for the Study of C.S. Lewis & Friends at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Inklings Forever by an authorized editor of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Full Issue 2004 (Volume IV) Cover Page Footnote This file is not paginated the same as the print journal. Contact [email protected] if you need additional pagination information. This full issue is available in Inklings Forever: https://pillars.taylor.edu/inklings_forever/vol4/iss1/1 INKLINGS FOREVER Volume IV A Collection of Essays Presented at the Fourth FRANCES WHITE EWBANK COLLOQUIUM on C. S. Lewzs Ana FRzenos TayLoR UnzveRSlTJ March 12-14, 2004 Upland, Indiana INKLINGS FOREVER Volutne IV 2004 INKLINGS FOREVER Volume IV - A Collection of Essays Presented at the Fourth FRANCES WHITE EWBANK COLLOQUIUM on C. S. Lewzs And FRzenos TayLoR UnzveRSzty March I 2-I 4, 2004 Upland, Indiana This volume is dedicated to Jay Kesler President Emeritus of Taylor University author, scholar, educator, and man after C.S. Lewis 's own heart. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Lewis and Friends Committee members who helped in all phases of the colloquium include: Steve Bedi, Dan Bowell, Laura Constantine, Dave Neuhauser, Steve Oberg, David Ritchie, Thorn Satterlee, and Pam Jordan, Chair. Thanks to Jan King for assistance with editorial and communication matters. Special thanks to Robert Moore-Jumonville and Bruce Edwards for their support and participation. Rick Hill Editor and Program Chair March, 2004 All contents @ 2004 by the individual authors INKLINGS FOREVER Volume IV A Collection of Essays Presented at the Fourth FRANCES WHITE EWBANK COLLOQUIUM on C.S. LEWIS AND FRIENDS 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Importance of Being Dorothy L. Sayers by Barbara Reynolds ... ............................................................................................... ... ........ .................. ...... .... I C.S. Lewis and the Ordinary Man by James M. Spencer, Covenant Christian High School .................................................................................. 8 C.S. Lewis's Idea of Happiness by Tracey Finck ............................................................................................................................................... 12 C.S. Lewis, Tutor by Joel D. Heck, Concordia University .......................................................................................................... 15 George MacDonald's Insights into Science and Religion by Mary Ellis Taylor ....................................................................................................................................... 19 Casting Light on Lilith: A Biblical Approach by Marie K. Hammond ................................................................................................................................... 23 The Season for the Hawthorn to Blossom by Robert Trexler, editor CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society ........................................ 34 How the Hobbits Saved Civilization by Robert Moore-Jurnonville, Spring Arbor University ................................................................................ 41 Why Is the Only Good Ore a Dead Ore by Anderson Rearick, Mount Vernon Nazarene University .......................................................................... 46 C.S. Lewis's Insights on the Suffering of Animals by Gabriele Greggersen, Universidade Presbiteriano Mackenzie, Brazil ..................................................... 53 Reading Lewis Reading: Oral Narrative and Literate Pedagogy in the Chronicles ofNamia by Nicole DuPlessis, Texas A&M University ................................................................................................ 64 Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C.S. Lewis by David C. Downing, Elizabethtown College ............................................................................................... 70 A Cloud ofWitnesses: A Collection of Quotes about Victorian Author George MacDonald by Darrel HotJnire ........................................................................................................................................... 77 George MacDonald on Psychology by Barbara Amell, Wingfold Editor ................................................................................................................. 85 MacDonald, the Revelation of God, and Literature by Darren HotJnire .......................................................................................................................................... 90 The Hero' s Journey of Eustace on the Voyage of Becoming: What Kind of Animal Do You Want to Be by Elizabeth McLaughlin, Bethel College (IN) ..... :.. ...................................................................................... 96 C.S. Lewis and Mark Twain: Iconoclasts of a Feather? by Rick Hill, Point Lorna Nazarene University ............................................................................................ 101 Of Urban Blockheads and Trousered Apes: C.S. Lewis and the Challenge of Education by Paul E. Michelson, Huntington College ................................................................................................... 106 To Hell and Back Again: Edmund's Transformation by Heidi Beutel, Asbury College, First Place Student Essay Winner .......................................................... 114 A Matter of Chivalry: C.S. Lewis's Response to Pacifism and the Just War Theory by Peter Barrett, Taylor University, Second Place Student Essay Winner .................................................. 117 Not a Tame Lion: What This Does and Does Not Mean by Raven Richardson, Asbury College, Third Place Student Essay Winner ............................................... 121 Silent Music: The Letters of Ruth Pitter by Don King, Montreat College .................................................................................................................... 124 The Secret of Father Brown: What is Christian Detective Fiction? by Rachel Kellogg, Taylor University-Fort Wayne ...................................................................................... 136 Dorothy L. Sayers and Russian Orthodoxy by Crystal Downing, Messiah College ......................................................................................................... 139 Lewis on the Gospels as True Myth by Bruce W. Young, Brigham Young University ........................................................................................ 144 Narrating Pain: C.S. Lewis and the Problem of Evil by Samuel Joeckel, Palm Beach Atlantic University ................................................................................... 151 Personal Honesty as an Epistemological Key in the Works of C.S. Lewis by Mike Mitchell ........................................................................................................................................... 155 The Problems of Pain: Two Distinct Difficulties in the Face of Suffering by Byron J. Powell, Taylor University (Student) ......................................................................................... 160 The Fisher Within the Spiritual Geography of C.S. Lewis's Perelandra by James D. Lopp, Ill, Butler University ..................................................................................................... 166 In Defense of the Fairy Tale: C.S. Lewis's Argument for the Value and Importance ofthe Fairy Tale by Constance Rice, Northwest College ......................................................................................................... 172 C.S. Lewis as Plagiarist: Some Grey Areas in the Grey Town by Thorn Satterlee, Taylor University .......................................................................................................... 176 Comparing Tolkien's The Lord ofthe Rings and Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke by John Seland, Nanzan University, Japan ................................................................................................... 181 The Three Faces of Fairy by Scott P. Johnson & Alesha D. Seroczynski, Bethel College (IN) ........................................................... 188 The Magic Makes All the Difference: George MacDonald's Fairy Tales a Child's-Eye View by Rachel Johnson ......................................................................................................................................... 194 INKLINGS FOREVER Volume IV The Importance of Being Dorothy L. Sayers Barbara Reynolds I have come a long way to talk to you about The same applies to Harriet Vane, who is even now for Dorothy L. Sayers. I don’t just mean that I have come many readers, especially female readers, a recognizable, across the Atlantic. I mean I have come a long way in living example of the modern, creative independent time. It is over half a century since I first met the woman, battling with the still