By M. Roger White, Judith Wolfe
For over thirty years, the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society has met weekly within the medieval schools of the collage of Oxford. in the course of that point, it has hosted as audio system approximately all these nonetheless dwelling who have been linked to the Inklings--the Oxford literary circle led by way of C. S. Lewis--as good as authors and thinkers of a prominence that nears Lewis's own.
C. S. Lewis and His Circle deals the reader an opportunity to affix this certain team. Roger White has labored with Society previous presidents Brendan and Judith Wolfe to choose an important talks, that are right here made on hand to the broader public for the 1st time. They exemplify the easiest of conventional educational essays, considerate memoirs, and casual recollections approximately C. S. Lewis and his circle. The reader will reimagine Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy with former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, learn thinker Elizabeth Anscombe's ultimate observe on Lewis's arguments for Christianity, pay attention the Reverend Peter Bide's thoughts of marrying Lewis and pleasure Davidman in an Oxford health center, and find out about Lewis's Narnia Chronicles from his former secretary.
Representing the best of either own and scholarly engagement with C. S. Lewis and the Inklings, the talks accrued the following set a brand new tone for engagement with this iconic Oxford literary circle--a tone on the subject of Lewis's personal Oxford-bred sharpness and wryness, pro with stable humor and actual affection for C. S. Lewis and his circle.
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