The Faithful Imagination: Papers from the 2018 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends

by Joe Ricke (Editor), Ashley Chu (Editor)

Overview

From May 31 to June 3, 2018, the 11th biennial Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends convened at Taylor University to consider “The Faithful Imagination.” This volume focuses on the roots and shoots of authors who linked the imaginative life with faithfulness to truth. From considerations of the philosophical/theological roots of the imagination as theorized in Coleridge and MacDonald, the essays branch out to look at the specific influences of family, war, love, death, trees, Belfast, and the Bible on the idiosyncratic imaginations of Lewis and Friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935688303
Publisher:	Winged Lion Press, LLC
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Joe Ricke is Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of C. S. Lewis and Friends at Taylor University. Ashley Chu is the University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Taylor University.

Ashley Chu is the University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Taylor University.

Table of Contents

Preface: “A Balcony Perspective” by Ashley Chu

Foreword: “Across the Threshold” by Crystal Hurd

I. Essays on C.S. Lewis

“Bookish, Clever People”: Exploring the Family Influences of C. S. Lewis" by Crystal Hurd

(plus 6 other essays)

II. Lewis and . . .

C. S. Lewis’s Assessment of George MacDonald’s Writings by Marsha Daigle-Williamson

(plus 8 other essays)

III. Essays on Inklings and Others

Shakespeare’s and Tolkien’s People-Trees by Grace Tiffany

(plus 7 other essays)

IV. Essays on the Faithful Imagination

"Mary, Martha, and the Faithful Imagination" by Laura A. Smit

(plus 6 other essays)

V. Creative Work Inspired by C. S. Lewis & Friends

"Mr Milton Tries to Read The Philosopher’s Stone" by D.S. Martin

(plus 7 other poems)

VI. “Magic Moments”: Reflections on the 2018 Colloquium

"Why the Lewis & Friends Colloquium is Awesome" by Brenton Dickieson

(plus 7 other reflections)

Editorial Reviews

“The Faithful Imagination uncovers the experiences that seasoned C.S. Lewis’s imagination: from the educational backgrounds of his parents to the devastation of their deaths; from his exhilaration with British trees to his despair in French trenches; from his assessment of Dorothy Sayers’s theology to his response to Joy Davidman’s sonnets. New flavors emerge by pairing Lewis with unlikely authors, such as H.P. Lovecraft and L.M. Montgomery. The Faithful Imagination will delight many palates.”

Crystal Downing, Co-Director of the Marion E Wade Center, Wheaton College and author of Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers.

"We live in a world that desperately needs more of the Inklings' wit, wisdom, and winsomeness. The Faithful Imagination contains something for everyone and represents one of the few new places where such things can be found."

Devin Brown, Professor of English at Asbury University and author of A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis

“There is magic when diverse minds delight in shared discovery – that is how the Inklings came to be, and it is how their legacy shall continue, as one sees and reads in this unique collection. The Lewis & Friends Colloquium is a rare learning environment, a taste of which is found in these pages. Fantastic fare indeed!”

Kirsten Jeffrey Johnson, co-editor of Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald & the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy.

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