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Lewzs Ano FRzenos TayLoR UnzveJ<SITJ November I 6- I 8, 200 I Upland, Indtana INKLINGS FOREVER Volume III 2001 INKLINGS FOREVER Volume III A Collection of Essays Presented at the Third FRANCES WHITE EWBANK COLLOQUIUM on • Lewzs Ano FRzenos TayLoR UnzveRSlTJ November 16-18, 2001 Published by Taylor University's Lewis and Friends Committee November 2001 This volume is dedicated to Daryl Yost Senior Vice-President of Taylor University. As scholar, mentor, and friend, Dr. Yost has been a steadfast supporter of the Lewis and Friends Committee. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Lewis and Friends committee members who helped in all phases of the colloquium include Daryl Yost, Bill Ringenberg, Thorn Satterlee, Dave Neuhouser, Dan Bowell, Jennifer Rodeheaver, and Pam Jordan, Chair. Thanks to Tenley Horner and Jan King for secretarial help; Steve Christensen for the colloquium logo; Nick Corduan for technical assistance, and Anderson Bindery for printing. Special thanks to Kathryn McConnell, Ph.D. of Point Lorna Nazarene University for judging the undergraduate writing contest, and to Rachel Kellogg for layout and editorial assista And deep appreciation yet again to Jay Kesler, Ron and Mary Calkins, Ed Brown, Dan Hamilton, and the Berens for their faithful support, moral and otherwise. Rick Hill Editor and Program Chair November, 2001 All essays @ 2001 by the individual authors INKLINGS FOREVER Volume III A Collection of Essays Presented at the Third FRANCES WHITE EWBANK COLLOQUIUM on C.S. LEWIS AND FRIENDS 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS Deep Magic Robert Moore-Jumonville, Spring Arbor University .......................... ..................... .. ................. .. .. .. .. ..... ......... 1 Sir Gawain and Bilbo: Interrelationships John Seland, Nazan University, Japan ........................................................................................................ .... .. 6 Imagining Heaven: Assessing Lewis's Romantic Revisions of Dante's Comedy Steven Jensen, Malone College ..................................................................... ................................................... 15 The Gently Sloping, Chosen Path: C.S. Lewis's View of Hell in Screwtape and The Great Divorce Richard Hill, Point Lorna Nazarene University ........................... ............ ........................................................ 19 Taking an Untamed Lion to School: Sharing about C.S. Lewis and Asian in an Elementary School Classroom Richard James, First Christian Church, Burkesville, KY ........ ....................................................................... 25 Epistemology and Metaphysics a Ia C.S. Lewis David N. Entwistle, Malone College ............................................................................................................... 30 The Night C.S. Lewis Lost a Debate Ted Dorman, Taylor University ......................................................................................................... ............. 38 Male vs. Female as Good vs. Bad: Deconstructing Gender in C.S. Lewis's Theology Sam McBride, DeVry Institute of Technology .......... ....................................................................................... 46 All Shall Be Well: Redemption as a Subtext of C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian Doug Jackson, Second Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, TX ........................................................................... 51 The Lord of the Rings and the Christian Way Nathan Sytsma, Calvin College, First Place Student Essay Winner ...... ..................................... .................... 57 A Woman's Place: Valid Vocation for Women in the Writing of Dorothy L. Sayers Erin Sells, Westmont College, Second Place Student Essay Winner ... ......... .......................... ........................ 64 The Reasonable Faith: C.S. Lewis's Argument for Christianity from the Characteristics of Human Reason Sabrina Locklair, Concordia University (WI), Third Place Student Essay Winner .... .................................... 69 Charles Williams: The Novel and Williams's Illustration of Humanity's Place in Creation as Found in The Place of the Lion Amy Wise, Cornerstone University .. ..................... .. .................................... ....... ........... .. ................... .. .. .......... 77 Rejection of the Tao: Illustrations of the Chronicles ofNarnia Gabrielle Greggersen, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Sao Paulo, Brazil .... ........ ...... .. .... ................. 82 The Joys of Collecting Ed Brown ............................ ........................ ................. ..................... ............ .................................... ................ 95 George MacDonald on Hamlet Pam Jordan, Taylor University .................. ............. ...... ....... .. ........... .. ............. .......... .......... .............. ............. 102 INKLINGS FOREVER Volume III DEEP MAGIC Robert Moore-Jumonville The recent uproar of Christian par­ but is also affected by the choices we hu­ ents over the good and evil wizardry de­ mans make each day. I submit that the pri­ scribed in the Harry Potter books makes one mary way you and I participate in this deep wonder whether the words "Christian magic today is by speaking a no to the magic" can be legitimately paired. Of world that God turns into a yes. course, G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis In his masterful chapter of Ortho­ would not have had a problem with the con­ doxy entitled Ethics of Eljland, Chesterton cept of Christian magic. As Lewis would argues against the materialist "man of sci­ say through the voice of Professor Kitke, ence who presupposes that the cosmos is an "Nothing is more probable." I think the rea­ impersonal machine operating according to son writers like Chesterton and Lewis had scientific "laws of nature" or according to no qualms about the notion of magic is be­ strict principles of cause and effect. The cause they were so fundamentally commit­ man of science assumes that this principle ted to a supernatural world view. If onere­ of cause and effect is a necessary principle; places the word magic with the word super­ Chesterton disagrees: "We must answer that natural or miracle, then no dilemma exists. it is magic." What causes apples to fall in­ Conversely, the reason we are so bothered stead of to float? We don't really know. by the idea of magic is because our world­ For all we know, the next one freed from its view-not the one we subscribe to in the­ limb may stay suspended in midair like a ory, but the one we practice daily-is so balloon. What is interesting for our pur­ thoroughly naturalistic. Think of it this poses is the way Chesterton connects the way: if we depict a character stepping onto idea of magic, with certain prohibitions a transporter beam platform, disintegrating, woven into the fabric of the world. and then reintegrating in another spot by a stunning feat of advanced technological en­ For the pleasure of pedantry I will gineering, we stand up and cheer. But if the call it the Doctrine of Conditional Joy .... same feat of disappearing and reappearing The note of fairy utterance always is, "You is produced by the wave of a go Iden wand, may live in a palace of gold and sapphire, if some of us begin asking uneasy questions you do not say the word 'cow'"; or "You about the occult. Christians claim they be­ may live happily with the King's daughter, if lieve in the supernatural, but mostly Jive as you do not show her an onion. " The vision though everyday choices produced results always hangs upon a veto. All the dizzy and only in the realm of natural causes and ef­ colossal things conceded depend upon one fects. Supernatural events or phenomena small thing withheld. All the wild and occur in a separate, nearly unconnected, whirling things that are let loose depend sphere from those in the mundane world. upon one thing that is forbidden. However, there is a different world view and logic at work in the works of Lewis and One can almost hear the echo of Moses' Chesterton, where "deep magic" is not only great last speech to Israel, "So choose life, woven into the very fabric of the universe, that you may Jive long in the land!" The Deep Magic by Robert Moore-Jumonville part I want to point out is how human must learn, child, that what would be wrong choice in this case produces certain effects for you or for any of the common people is (either good or evil) in the world at large. not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The Everything that makes for human weight of the world is on our shoulders. happiness, then, depends upon our ability to