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Volume 1 a Collection of Essays Presented at the First Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S Inklings Forever Volume 1 A Collection of Essays Presented at the First Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Article 1 Friends 1997 Full Issue 1997 (Volume 1) 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 (1997) "Full Issue 1997 (Volume 1)," Inklings Forever: Vol. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/inklings_forever/vol1/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]. INKLINGS FOREVER A Collection of Essays Presented at tlte First FRANCES WHITE EWBANK COLLOQUIUM on C.S. LEWIS AND FRIENDS II ~ November 13-15, 1997 Taylor University Upland, Indiana ~'...... - · · .~ ·,.-: :( ·!' '- ~- '·' "'!h .. ....... .u; ~l ' ::-t • J. ..~ ,.. _r '· ,. 1' !. ' INKLINGS FOREVER A Collection of Essays Presented at the Fh"St FRANCES WHITE EWBANK COLLOQliTUM on C.S. LEWIS AND FRIENDS Novem.ber 13-15, 1997 Published by Taylor University's Lewis and J1nends Committee July1998 This collection is dedicated to Francis White Ewbank Lewis scholar, professor, and friend to students for over fifty years ACKNOWLEDGMENTS David Neuhauser, Professor Emeritus at Taylor and Chair of the Lewis and Friends Committee, had the vision, initiative, and fortitude to take the colloquium from dream to reality. Other committee members who helped in all phases of the colloquium include Faye Chechowich, David Dickey, Bonnie Houser, Dwight Jessup, Pam Jordan, Art White, and Daryl Yost. Thanks to Teil Buroker for secretarial and computer work, Alex Lutz for proofreading, Don Wilson for the colloquium logo, Taylor University Press for copying, and Prinit Press for binding. And special thanks to Daryl Yost, Jay Kesler, Ron and Mary Calkins, Ed Brown, and the Borens for their support, moral and otherwise. Rick Hill Program Chair and Editor All essays © 1997, 1998 by the the individual authors INKLINGS FOREVER A Collection of Essays Presented at the First FRANCES WHITE EWBANK COLLOQUllJM on C.S. LEWIS AND FRIENDS TABLE OF CONTENTS C. S. Lewis and Christian Scholarship Bruce Edwards, Bowling Green State University C. S. Lewis: Lightbearer in the Shadowlands Angus Menuge, Concordia University 8 Praeparatio EvangeUca Joel Heck, Concordia University 16 Shadows That Fall: The Immanence of Heaven in the Fiction of Lewis and MacDonald David Manley, Trinity Western University, British Columbia, Canada 22 The Friendship of Lewis and Tolkien John Seland, Nanzan University, Japan 29 Till Poems Have Faces Lou Olson, Student, Taylor University . 37 Myth Made Truth: Origins of the Chronicles ofNamia Mark Bane, Student, Taylor University 44 C. S. Lewis: Past Watchful Dragons Stephanie Jones, Student, Taylor University . ... ... 49 Old Poet Remembered: The Case for the Poetry of C. S. Lewis David Landrum, Cornerstone College . 54 Human Destiny in That Hideous Strength Wilfred Martens, Fresno Pacific U . 62 Dorothy L. Sayers and the Passionate Intellect Roger Phillips, Taylor University . .. ....... 68 TiU We Have Faces: A Restoration of Perspective on the Condition of Man Joan Alexander . 81 The Question of Biblical AUegory in TiU We Have Faces David Bedsole, Huntingdon College . 86 The Abolition of Man: First Principles an·d Pre-Evangelism (or "What C.S. Lewis Taught My Brother) Ted Dorman, Taylor University . 89 George MacDonald's Answer to the Victorian Crises of Faith Pamela Jordan, Taylor University . 93 The Speaking Elephant: Rightly Dividing MacDonald's Fairy Tales Darren Hotrnire, Trinity Divinity School . 99 George MacDonald and Medicine Darrel Hotrnire, M.D . 105 Cliffhangers and Extracts From Fact and Fantasy Dan Hamilton . 108 Unto the End of the World: Omega Point Eschatology in C. S. Lewis and Pierre Teilbard de Chardin Chris Smith . I IS Wordsmiths as Warriors: The Intellectual Honesty of G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis Daryl Charles, Taylor University . 121 The Apologetics of Chesterton and Lewis in a World Marked by Disbelief Michael R. Smith, Taylor University . 130 Some Shattering Simplicity: Suffering, Love, and Faith in the Thought of C. S. Lewis Jennifer Woodruff . 134 Perspectives in Strength: Four Women in the Writings of Lewis and Tolkien Angela Fortner and Peter Marshall . 142 Dorothy L. Sayers: Thinking Passionately Mrujorie Lamp Mead, Wheaton College . 154 C. S. Lewis: Public Christian and Scholar by Bruce L. Edwards All our merely natural activities will be accepted if they are offered to God, even the humblest. and all of them, even the noblest. will be sinful if they are not. -C. S. Lewis, "Learning in War Time" Ardent readers of C. S Lewis's fiction and not as familiar with him, that this is also the apologetics often find themselves reflecting "other Lewis," the writer of learned treatises upon an elusive quality they detect in his texts on Medieval and Renaissance topics and the across all eras of his life, a feature they grope vagaries of literary history, theory, and to label and to explain to amiable agnostics by practice. such terms as wholeness or symmetry, The same experiences as await enthusiasts guilelessness or unpretentiousness. The effect of his fiction and apologetics await the student of reading his work, they would testifY, is the of his scholarly books. They can be anticipated sensation of entering into a new order of not only in his imaginative and theological experience or level of insight, whatever the works, but illso in his literary scholarship in genre-and yet an effect achieved without general. apparent contrivance or arduous effort on either the writer's or the reader's part. It is a Naming the phenomenon winsomeness that draws one into a journey with a companion or into a conversation with Two men well acquainted with Lewis's life a gracious host whose salutary presence by and work, one who knew him intimately all of turns instructs, delights, challenges, and, his adult life, the other immersed in the gritty always, intrigues. details of his texts and biography for more This is the Lewis who created Narnia, than four decades, can help articulate this Malacandra, and Glome, who defended the phenomenon I seek to name. credibility of New Testament miracles, articulated the essence of Mere Christianity, Owen Barfield, Lewis's longtime friend and took us on a tour of Heaven and Hell. But and lifetime intellectual combatant, once I would also like to suggest to those who are declared that "Somehow what Lewis thought I C.S. Lewis: Public Christian and Scholar • Bruce L. Edwards about everything was secretly present in what discovered as indigenous within every text he he said about anything." Likewise, Walter crafted. This "thoroughly converted man" Hooper, the principal bibliographer and offered the academic and the Christian world well-known expositor of Lewis, has referred to a scholarship that incarnates the ancient faith him as the "most thoroughly converted man I in the most disarming yet natural ways. have ever known." What then might we call this pervasive Moving the World quality most of his intimates and many mere readers of Lewis have experienced in their Indeed, Lewis's consummate rhetorical encounters with him? I would put it this way: skill, requisite boldness, perspicacious grasp of in Lewis we find a profound sense of time and culture, prodigious memory, bracing integration: an imagination baptized and wit and humor, these are all present in equal married to reason and transformed by the doses without calculation or hidden agenda in revelation of the person of Christ. every genre of prose and poetry he attempted. My reflection on Lewis's literary career, Between "the Christian World of C. S. Lewis" and my submersion in his literary scholarship, and "the Scholarly World of C. S. Lewis," reveal to me a man who refused to there can be no distinction. compartmentalize his faith or his vocation. Both were undergirded by diligent prayer Lewis's devotion to Christ and his full embrace and devotion daily by encounter with the word of the supernaturalism of Biblical faith leaks of God. In short, the ethos that Lewis, as out into his prose whether he is writing Christian scholar, presented in his texts, all his children's fantasy, or etymologies of obscure texts, is that of a confident but unassuming Norse words, or framing the cultural milieu of man who, in Archimedean terrns, has found a allegory in the fourteenth century. place to stand, a man who is ready, albeit with The scholarly Lewis is also the Christian all due deference to his readers' own apologist who gives blithe radio talks aspirations and circumstances, to move the explaining the Trinity; the philologist Lewis is world closer to the truth. also the science- fiction writer who resituates To elucidate Lewis's integrative faith and the plot of Genesis on a planet far, far away; scholarship is to discover what animated him the brilliant social critic and urbane essayist is at his very being; we who wish to emulate him also the scrupulously kind and indefatigable as a Christian academic or lay Ieamer must correspondent who answers any and all discover, as he did, that revealed truth is inquiries from the high and the lowly. central to fiuitful scholarly inquiry. By And yet the point I wish to stress is that "scholarship" I refer to that endeavor within Lewis's Christian witness is not a the academic vocation in which the inquirer "value-added" aspect of his scholarly work. It marshals evidence in the pursuit of hypotheses is not ladled on artificially and sanctimoniously or theses and expresses her or his discoveries like thick gravy on gristle to cover its in the forums of their peers in their disciplines.
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