SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review

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Volume 1

A Tribute to Clyde S Kilby − Donald R Mitchell
Foreword − Owen Barfield
'If You Would But Write Novels, Mr MacDonald' − Rolland Hein
In Search of the Essential Chesterton − Ian Boyd
Tolkien as Philologist − David Lyle Jeffrey
Charles Williams and his Arthurian Poetry − Alice Mary Hadfield
Like Aesop's Bat − Barbara Reynolds and Dorothy L Sayers
C S Lewis's Dymer − George Sayer
The Concept of Revelation − Owen Barfield

Volume 2

The Emperor Clothed and in his Right Mind? − Richard Webster
The Nature of Meaning − Owen Barfield
The Abyss of His Mother-Tongue: Scotch Dialect in Novels by George MacDonald − Roderick McGillis
The Everlasting Man: G K Chesterton's Answer to H G Wells − John Sullivan
C S Lewis: Critic, Creator and Cult Figure − Chad Walsh
Dorothy L Sayers and the Other Type of Mystery − John R Elliott, Jr
Types of Christian Drama: With Some Notes on Production − Dorothy L Sayers
The Diagrammatised Glory of Williams's Taliessin − Joe McClatchey

Volume 3

What Happened to Dorothy L Sayers that Good Friday? − E L Mascall
The Emperor's Clothes Invisible? An Open Letter to Richard Webster − Kathleen Nott
The Dogma in the Manger (1954) − Dorothy L Sayers
Notes Towards a Reply (1982) − Kathleen Nott
Meaning and The Mind of the Maker − D J taylor
George MacDonald and the World of Faery − Marion Lochhead
G K Chesterton and the Myth-Making Power − Leo A Hetzler
Known in a Different Kind: A COmment on the Literary Criticism of Charles Williams − Brian Horne
The Dialectic of Multiple Worlds: An Analysis of C S Lewis's Narnia Stories − Michael Murrin
The Quality of Thinking: Owen Barfield as Literary Man and Anthroposophist − Patrick Grant

Volume 4

A Note on Scientific and Theological Enterprises − A R Peacocke
What is Truth? An Open Letter to Kathleen Nott − D J Taylor
C S Lewis on the Desolation of Devalued Science − Bruce R Reichenbach
Goerge MacDonald and Dreams of the Other World − David Holbrook
The Symbolism of the Key in Chesterton's Work − Christiane d'Haussey
Chesterton and Tolkien: the Road to Middle-Earth − Thomas M Egan
Charles Williams and Arthur Edward Waite − Elisabeth Brewer
Charles Williams's Christmas Novel: The Greater Trumps − Charles Huttar
Seeing and Knowing: The Epistemology of C S Lewis's Till We Have Faces − Peter J Schakel
Gaudy Night: An Investigation of Truth − Donald G Marshall

Volume 5

Tribute to John Sullivan KSG − Aidan Mackey
The Psychology of the Self in MacDonald's Phantastes − Max Keith Sutton
World's Apart: the Importance of Double Vision for MacDonald Criticism − Kathy Triggs
Postscript: A Reply − David Holbrook
Charles Williams and Thomas Cranmer at Canterbury − James G Dixon
Tolkien's Platonic Fantasy − John Cox
The Detective Fiction of Dorothy L Sayers: a Source for the Social Historian? − Philip L Scowcroft
Jack the Giant-Killer − A D Nuttall
C S Lewis and T D Weldon − Martin Moynihan

Volume 6

The Latin Letters of C S Lewis to Don Giovanni Calabria − Martin Moynihan
The Defiant Lyricism of Owen Barfield − Thomas Kranidas
The Fiction of George MacDonald − David S Robb
Dorothy L Sayers: Critic of Detective Fiction − Ralph E Hone
An Introduction to Charles Williams's Incarnationalism and the Taliessin Poetry − John-Manuel Andriote
The Silmarillion and the Rise of Evil: the Birth Pains of Middle-Earth − Thomas M Egan
Review Article: 'I Wrote It Just For Fun' − Barbara Reynolds

Volume 7

George MacDonald: A Portrait from His Letters − Rolland Hein
Being Somebody Else: Smith's 'Sympathy' and Chesterton's 'Secret' − Norbert Waszek
Provocative Generalisations: The Allegory of Love in Retrospect − Margaret P Hannay
The Polemic Image: The Role of Metaphor and Symbol in the Fiction of C S Lewis − Kath Filmer
Appeasing the Gods in C S Lewis's Till We Have Faces − Peter W Macky
Tolkien's Concept of Philology as Mythology − J S Ryan
Dorothy L Sayers and the Proper Work of the Playwright − George Ralph
Playwrights Are Not Evangelists − Dorothy L Sayers
Writing a Local Play − Dorothy L Sayers
Review Article: Scientism and the Flight from reality − Geoffrey Price
Review Article: Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc − Aidan Mackey

Volume 8

A Tribute to Clyde S Kilby − Beatrice Batson
George MacDonald and Animal Magnetism − David S Robb
Malaise at the Heart of The Flying Inn − John Coates
Christian Existentialism in the Early Poetry of Charles Williams − Diane edwards
Sauron as Gorgon and Basilisk − Gwyneth E Hood
Fiction in A Grief Observed − George Musacchio
Dorothy L Sayers and the Truth about Lucan − Brian G Marsden
Review Article: Charles Williams as Natural and Preternatural − Stephen Medcalf

Volume 9

The Centenary Year of Charles Williams − Charles A Huttar
Inklings in Germany − Christopher Dean
A Visit to Beatrice − Owen Barfield
Entering the Vision: A Novelist's View of Phantastes − Sylvia Bruce
'La Trahison des Clercs' in Chesterton's Parables for Social Reformers − Denis J Conlon
Spectres of T S Eliot's City in the Novels of Charles Williams − Donald G Kessee
Mid-Century Perceptions of the Ancient Celtic Peoples of England − J S Ryan
Echoes in Age from the World of J R R Tolkien − E L Edmonds
A Dorothy L Sayers Crime Play Rediscovered − Philip L Scowcroft
C S Lewis on Rationalism (Unpublished Notes) − Patience Fetherston
'Knowledge' in C S Lewis's Post-Conversion Thought: His Epistemological Method − Stephen Thorson
Review Article: Abridgement: Profit and Loss in Modernising George MacDonald − William H Burnside
Review Article: Despatches from the Battlefield − John Coates

Volume 10: Sayers Centenary Issue

Foreword − Dorothy L Sayers
The Centenary Year − Christopher Dean
Dorothy L Sayers: Her Novels Today − P D James
University Detective Fiction Then and Now: Dorothy L Sayers's Gaudy Night and Amanda Cross's Death in a Tenured Position − Thomas Michael Stein
From Poetaster to Poet: One Aspect of the Development of Lord Peter Wimsey − Ralph E Hone
Dorothy L Sayers and Music: Musicienne Malgré Elle − William Phemister
The Greatest Story, or from mystery to Mystery − John Thurmer
Dorothy L Sayers and Dante's Beatrice − Ann Loades
Temptation at Canterbury: T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Dorothy L Sayers's The Zeal of Thy House − Manfred Siebald
An Almost Perfect Match: Dorothy L Sayers on Cricket − Andrew Lewis

Volume 11

Feature Article: Shadowlands Observed
Charles Williams and the Arthurian Tradition − Joe H McClatchey
Diamond and Kilmeny: MacDonald, Hogg and the Scottish Folk Tradition − William Raeper
'BARSPECS': Owen Barfield's Vision − Shirley Sugerman
Studies of the Faces of Man"; "Man − G K Chesterton
Personal Memories of a Lewis Scholar in Japan − Peter Milward

Volume 12

Wade Center 30th Anniversary − Christopher W Mitchell
Lilith Centenary Reviews
Lilith: A Dark Labyrinth Towards the Light − Giorgio Spina
Worship in the Anglican Church − Dorothy L Sayers
Under the Mercy: An Introduction to Charles Williams − Nancy E Topolewski
'Making the Poor Beast of Dull Things': C S Lewis as Poet − Don W King
The Image in the Mirror: Americans in Wimsey's Acquaintance − Petra-Angela Wacker
Review Article: The History of Middle Earth − Wayne G Hammond and Christina Scull

Volume 13

G K Chesterton: Myth, Paradox, and the Commonplace − Rolland Hein
The Day Boy and the Night Girl − Adrian Gunther
Higher Dimensions: C S Lewis and Mathematics − David L Neuhouser
Fantasy Set to Music: Donald Swann, C S Lewis, and J R R Tolkien − William Phemister
Special Feature: Two Responses to Dorothy L Sayers' "Worship in the Anglican Church"
Review Article: Dorothy L - A Dramatic Portrait of Dorothy L Sayers − Barbara Reynolds

Volume 14

The Oecumenical Penguin − Giles Watson
Dorothy L Sayers and Aristotle − Rosamond Kent Sprague
Beyond Ideas: The Intrigue of the Lilith Manuscripts − Rolland Hein
Response to Dorothy L Sayers' Worship in the Anglican Church − John Thurmer
Disseminating Glory: Echoes of Charles Williams in the Works of T S Eliot − Suzanne Bray
Warren Lewis: Historian of the Inkings and of Seventeenth-Century France − Richard C West
On Being a Ghost − Jill Paton Walsh
Christmas and Sport − G K Chesterton
SEVEN Authors in the Internet − Anthony Palmer Dawson
Remembrances of Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs, Anne Scott, and Graham Suter

Volume 15: Owen Barfield and C S Lewis Centenary Issue

Barfield's Evolution of Consciousness: How Much Did Lewis Accept? − Stephen Thorson
The Dungeon of His Soul: Lewis' Unfinished Quest of Bleheris − David C Downing
Through the Wardrobe: A Famous Image Explored − Michael Ward
Glints of Light: The Unpublished Short Poetry of C S Lewis − Don W King
Review Essay: Owen Barfield: A Reader's Guide − David Lavery
Review Essay: On Reading Many Books about Lewis − Peter J Schakel

Volume 16

The Influence of Charles Williams on the Life and Work of W.H. Auden − Cicero Bruce
The Language Learned of Elves: Owen Barfield, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings − Stephen Medcalf
George MacDonald and Jacob Boehme: Lilith and the Seven-fold Pattern of Existence − Deirdre Hayward
Sayers and Son − John Thurmer
Harry Blamires: Oral History Interview with Lyle Dorsett
50 Years On: Dorothy L. Sayers and Dante
A Remembrance of Ralph E. Hone

Volume 17

A Remembrance of Mary McDermott Shideler
A Remembrance of Michael Stansby Williams
The Lion at 50 − Colin Manlove
"Tolkien and Esperanto"
Dear Jim.... the reconstruction of a friendship − Barbara Reynolds
2nd Lieutenant Lewis − K James Gilchrist
Dante and his Daughter: Dorothy L Sayers' response to Maud Bodkin − Dominic Manganiello

Volume 18

Quorum Porum: The Literary Cats of T.S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter and Dorothy L Sayers − Don King
The Versatile C.S. Lewis: Latin Scholar − Arthur Rupprecht
Charles Williams and the Tradition of Alchemy − Gavin Ashenden
Continuing Research on Second Lieutenant Lewis − James Gilchrist
Special feature highlighting the events related to the dedication of the new facility for the Wade Center in September 2001.

Volume 19

Intellectual Tyrrany: A Rebellion? − Barbara Reynolds
C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity (the Book and the Ideal) at the Start of the Twenty-first Century − Mark Noll
Browsing the Glome Library − Doris Myers
The Foolish Weakness in C.S. Lewis' Cosmic Trilogy: A Feminine Heroic − Monika Hilder
Chapter III of Tolkien and the Silmarillion − Clyde S Kilby
J.R.R. Tolkien's Formal Lecturing and Teaching − J.S. Ryan
News of the completed restoration of C.S. Lewis' Oxford home, The Kilns, as well as the 2002 Dorothy L Sayers Society convention.

Volume 20

C.S. Lewis and Politics − Suzanne Bray
Dorothy L. Sayers and War − Barbara Reynolds
George MacDonald's Transfiguring Fantasy − John Pridmore
Metaphysical and Romantic in the Taliessin Poems − Stephen Barber
Some Views on Catholic Tales and Christian Songs − Christine R. Simpson
Review Article: Survey of Tolkien Literature − Colin Duriez.
Remembrances of Lucy Barfield, Rev. Peter Bide, George Every, and Kathryn Lindskoog.
News and Events: highlights the 2003 Dorothy L Sayers Society convention.

Volume 21

Charles Williams and Owen Barfield: Common (and Uncommon) Ground − Stephen Dunning
Dorothy L Sayers and C.S. Lewis: Two Approaches to Creativity and Calling − Diana Ravlac Gyler and Laura K. Simmons
'Bid the Tree Unfix His Earthbound Root': Motifs from Macbeth in The Lord of the Rings − Janet Brennan Croft
Lewis and Morris − Robert Boenig
Charles Williams as Medieval Troubadour − Joseph Hugh Simmons
News and Events: highlights the beginnings and evolution of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture, the activities of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society during 2004, and a report on the Marquette Tolkien Conference.

Volume 22

MacDonald’s Shorter Fairy Tales: Journeys into the Mind − Colin Manlove
The Orthodoxology of Dorothy L. Sayers − Crystal Downing
C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and the Anglican Psalter − George Musacchio
Fire and Ice: C.S. Lewis and the Love Poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter − Don W. King
C.S. Lewis’s Use of Analogy in Theological Understanding − Robert J. Palma
Remembrances of Humphrey Carpenter, George Sayer, and Richard T. Webster
A summary of the proceedings of the 2005 Dorothy L. Sayers Convention
Plus 20 book reviews

Volume 23

G.K. Chesterton: Social Criticism and the Sense of Wonder − Richard Gill
That 'such a genius should be a beastly American': C.S. Lewis as Critic of American Literature − Jack L. Knowles
'My Dear Norah': The Course of a Friendship − Christopher Dean
Eagles with Attitude: Chaucer and Tolkien − Emma B. Hawkins
Finding Joy: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Works of Joy Davidman − Don W. King
Review Article: "Theism and Thought" − Mark R. Talbot

Volume 24

Worshipping the Hero: MacDonald and Carlyle’s Early Novels − David Robb

David Robb compares and contrasts the “great men” who populate MacDonald’s realistic novels with the concept of the “Great Man” as defined by the influential Victorian writer, Thomas Carlyle.

Contemplating C.S. Lewis’s Epistemology − Norbert Feinendegen

Norbert Feinendegen suggests that while Lewis and Barfield’s “Great War” correspondence did influence Lewis’s Christian conversion, it was for different reasons than have been assumed by scholars heretofore, due to Barfield’s misunderstanding of Lewis’s use of the key terms “enjoyment” and “contemplation”.

“Seeking But To Do Thee Grace”: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Illustrated Religious Cards − Laura Simmons

Laura Simmons uses unpublished correspondence of Sayers to explore the author’s process of collaboration with her publisher and artists in the creation of several religious cards published late in Sayers’s life.

Didactic Pleasures: Learning in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia − Paul Tankard

Paul Tankard examines the overtly didactic qualities in the Narnian Chronicles, and explains the background and value in Lewis’s instructive approach, while clarifying that the Christian resonances in the series are not among the material that is presented didactically.

Feminist Nay-Sayers: Are Women Human? − Crystal Downing

Crystal Downing contextualizes Dorothy L. Sayers’s essays “Are Women Human?” and “The Human-Not-Quite-Human”, recently republished by Eerdmans, within the three “waves” of twentieth-century feminism.

Books Reviewed:

The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, The Witch, and the Worldview Ed. by Gregory Bassham and Jerry L. Walls
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth by Bradley J. Birzer
Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Devin Brown
Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles Ed. by Shanna Caughey
Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien by Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans
Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C.S. Lewis by David C. Downing
Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles by David C. Downing
Not a Tame Lion by Bruce Edwards
C.S. Lewis - Mythe, raison ardente : Imagination et réalité selon C.S. Lewis by Irène Fernandez
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology by Verlyn Flieger
Irrigating Deserts: C.S. Lewis on Education by Joel Heck
The World of the Rings by Jared Lobdell
Beyond the Shadowlands: C.S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell by Wayne Martindale
The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context Ed. by Ernest Mathijs
Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen by Lynnette R. Porter
The Way Into Narnia: A Reader’s Guide by Peter J. Schakel
In Search of Salt. A Perennial Comparison of C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield by Raymond P. Tripp Jr.
C.S. Lewis & Narnia for Dummies by Richard Wagner
The Heart of The Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There by Thomas Williams
The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth by Ralph C. Wood

Volume 25 (2008)

A Myth of Hubris in Till We Have Faces − Chad Shrock

Examining what some declare C.S. Lewis’s best novel, Chad Shrock analyzes the development of protagonist Orual’s prideful vision of herself in relation to the gods, and the process whereby her hubris ultimately crumbles.

The Inhabitants of Cosmo’s Drawer − Reid Makowsky

Reid Makowsky proposes that references to two medieval magicians in George MacDonald’s Phantastes reinforce the cohesiveness of the novel, helping demonstrate MacDonald’s belief in sanctification through death to one’s self.

Death − Owen Barfield

Owen Barfield’s essay, previously unpublished and here footnoted by Amy Vail, reflects the influence of George MacDonald’s writings while shaping his own Anthroposophical understanding of the concept of “death to self”. Introductions by Chris Mitchell and Jane Hipolito posit the importance of this essay for understanding aspects of Barfield’s thought, as well as his influence on and divergence from C.S. Lewis’s thought.

Responses to Norbert Feinendegen’s “Contemplating C.S. Lewis’s Epistemology”

Discussion between Norbert Feinendegen and Stephen Thorson regarding Dr. Feinendegen’s article in Volume 24 on the topic of C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield’s “Great War”. Comments by Charlie Starr are also included.

Poetry and Transformation − Brian Horne

Brian Horne evaluates Gavin Ashenden’s book Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration.

Books Reviewed:

Owen Barfield: Romanticism Comes of Age, A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
G.K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward by Stephen R.L. Clark
C.S Lewis, My Godfather by Laurence Harwood
A Morning After War: C.S. Lewis and WWI by K.J. Gilchrist
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward
Shadows and Chivalry: C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald on Suffering, Evil, and Goodness by Jeff McGinnis
Alec Forbes of Howglen and the Condition of Scotland by David Robb
George MacDonald: Literary Heritage and Heirs Ed. by Roderick McGillis
Introductory Papers on Dante, Volume 1: The Poet Alive in His Writings by Dorothy L. Sayers
Further Papers on Dante, Volume 2: His Heirs and His Ancestors by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Poetry of the Search and the Poetry of Statement, Volume 3: On Dante & Other Writers by Dorothy L. Sayers
Roots and Branches by Tom Shippey
The Plants of Middle-earth: Botany and Sub-Creation by Dinah Hazell
From Hobbits to Hollywood Ed. by Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance
The Frodo Franchise by Kristin Thompson
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
The Company they Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer
Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien on the Human Condition by Donald T. Williams

Volume 26 (2009)

Conversing with Dante: Relational Assent in Charles Williams and George MacDonald − Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson

Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson compares the way Dante’s perception of human and divine relationships in the Divine Comedy influences Williams’s novel Descent into Hell and MacDonald’s fantasy Lilith.

Stoic Rationality and Divine Madness in Till We Have Faces − Dale Sullivan

Dale Sullivan examines C.S. Lewis’s novel through the lens of classical rhetorical theory, demonstrating how Orual’s journey that leads to encounter with the divine is an effective critique by Lewis of material rationalism.

Vocation in Work: Dorothy L. Sayers and Economic Issues − Christine M. Fletcher

Christine M. Fletcher explores the long-term interest Sayers had in defining work in her era, anticipating later successful developments in the field of corporate management. Previously unpublished material from the Wade Center archives reinforces her overview.

That Hideous Latin in That Hideous Strength − Amy E.K. Vail

Amy E.K. Vail shows how C.S. Lewis’s use of Latin tags to help delineate his characters is associated with his wider views on language’s relationship to morality.

Books Reviewed:

Chesterton on War and Peace Ed. Michael Perry
Second Friends: C.S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation by Milton Walsh
C.S. Lewis on the Fullness of Life: Longing for Deep Heaven by Dennis J. Billy
George MacDonald’s Challenging Theology of the Atonement, Suffering, and Death by Miho Yamaguchi
“A Noble Unrest”: Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald Ed. Jean Webb
Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien by Ross Smith
The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth by Elizabeth A. Whittingham
Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology Ed. Trevor Hart and Ivan Khovacs
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner
Truths Breathed through Silver: The Inklings’ Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy Ed. Jonathan B. Himes with Joe R. Christopher and Salwa Khoddam
Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C.S. Lewis Novels by Elizabeth Baird Hardy
Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language Ed. Janet Brennan Croft
The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History by Lee Oser

Volume 27 (2010)

C.S. Lewis on Language and Meaning − Steven A. Beebe

Steven A. Beebe examines the C.S. Lewis manuscript fragment entitled Language and Human Nature that he identifies as the start of an intended book collaboration between Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The fragment is transcribed in toto.

In Search of Lucy: The Life of Lucy Barfield − Owen A. and Adelene Barfield

The life of Owen Barfield’s daughter is outlined by her nephew, Owen A. Barfield.

C.S. Lewis Remembered: Cambridge, 1957-1960 − Tom McAlindon

Tom McAlindon, Renaissance scholar, recalls his years as a post-graduate student at Cambridge under the supervision of C.S. Lewis.

Woodland Prisoner − Clyde S. Kilby

John D. Rateliff introduces and annotates a 1983 talk given by Dr. Clyde S. Kilby recounting his work with J.R.R. Tolkien on The Silmarillion.

Two Poems by Owen Barfield − Brett Foster

Brett Foster analyzes Owen Barfield’s poems Rust and She. Both poems are published here; She appears in print for the first time.

C.S. Lewis and the Art of the Apologue − Samuel Joeckel

Samuel Joeckel suggests that classifying The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters as apologues allows a more accurate understanding of C.SLewis’s approach to story-telling.

Review Essay: G.K. Chesterton as Thinker and Theologian − Ralph C. Wood

Ralph C. Wood offers an overview of recent scholarship on G.K. Chesterton’s theology, with emphasis on Aidon Nichols’s 2009 book from Second Spring, G.K. Chesterton, Theologian.

Review Essay: Dearborn's The Baptized Imagination − Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson

Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson asserts the importance of Kerry Dearborn’s 2006 book The Baptized Imagination: The Theology of George MacDonald (Ashgate) in MacDonald scholarship.

Some Planets in Narnia: A Quantitative Investigation of the Planet Narnia Thesis − Justin L. Barrett

Online article: see the Wade web site for download.

Other Books Reviewed:

Reprinted Titles from The Barfield Press: History, Guilt, and Habit; Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis; The Rediscovery of Meaning, and Other Essays; Romanticism Comes of Age; Speaker’s Meaning; What Coleridge thought; Worlds Apart; Unancestral Voice by Owen Barfield
C.S. Lewis and Philosophy as a Way of Life by Adam Barkman
C.S. Lewis as Philosopher eds. Baggett, Habermas and Walls
C.S. Lewis ou La vocation du best-seller by Suzanne Bray
Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman ed. Don W. King
In the Near Loss of Everything: George MacDonald’s Son in America by Dale Wayne Slusser
A Detection of the Trinity by John Thurmer
The Victorian Approach to Modernism in the Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers by Aoife Leahy
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Christ of the Creeds and Other Broadcast Messages ed. Suzanne Bray
Charles Williams and His Contemporaries ed. Suzanne Bray and Richard Sturch

Volume 28 (2011)

C.S. Lewis’s Unfinished “Easley Fragment” − David C. Downing and Bruce R. Johnson

This is the first publication of C.S. Lewis’s early attempt at realistic fiction, and is accompanied by an interpretive essay, situating the piece in C.S. Lewis’s biographical and literary contexts.

G.K. Chesterton’s Portrait of George MacDonald − Daniel Gabelman

Daniel Gabelman provides a unique framework for understanding George MacDonald’s work by examining it through G.K. Chesterton’s writing.

Dorothy L. Sayers and the Creative Reader − Chris Willerton

Chris Willerton highlights Dorothy L. Sayers’s understanding of the Trinitarian structure of creativity and her call to “creative” reading as an act of civic virtue.

Tolkien’s Beautiful Sorrow − Michael David Elam

Michael David Elam explores the idea of a beauty that comes from sorrow by examining J.R.R. Tolkien’s expression of divine music in the Ainulindalë of the Silmarillion.

Sayers and the Somersham Pageant − Martin Ferguson Smith

Martin Ferguson Smith reveals a little-known aspect of Dorothy L. Sayers’s early writing life: her involvement in village pageants. This article is accompanied by archival photographs of Sayers and other participants in the 1908 Somersham Pageant.

Books Reviewed:

From the Barfield Press: Eager Spring by Owen Barfield, introduction by John D. Rateli; Night Operation by Owen Barfield, introduction by Jane Hipolito;
The Holiness of G.K. Chesterton ed. William Oddie
Defiant Joy: Thee Remarkable Life and Impact of G. K. Chesterton by Kevin Belmonte
A Sword between the Sexes?: C.S. Lewis and the Gender Debates by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
The Soul of C.S. Lewis compiled by Wayne Martindale, Jerry Root and Linda Washington
Inklings of Heaven: C.S. Lewis and Eschatology by Sean Connolly, foreward by Walter Hooper
The Rhetoric of Certitude: C.S. Lewis’s Nonfiction Prose by Gary L. Tandy
Phantastes: Special Annotated Edition by George MacDonald, ed. Nick Page
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
The Ring and the Cross ed. Paul Kerry
Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien ed. Bradford Lee Eden
Tolkien’s View: Windows into his World by J.S. Ryan
Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien ed. Kathleen Dubs and Janka Kašĉáková

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