... [see her blog post at http://tinyurl.com/7yr98d5 ] I think that puts it in a different light, because her original post, to which Fr Andrew Stephen Damick...
... I trried to comment on Lily Parascheva Rowe's blog, but it would not let me, so I'm copying her comment here: Thursday, 03 May 2012 18:25 posted by Lily...
An interesting discussion seems to be developing in the Orthodox blogosphere about whether Orthodox Christians should write, or even read, fantasy literature....
... Hmmm...interesting point. Obviously Haldane's ideal is uniformity. On the other hand, Creation leads us to believe that it is in fact variety which is...
I don't think so, unless you count a remark by J. B. S. Haldane in an article attacking Lewis, to the effect that an ideal language (such as Old Solar...
Greetings! I am new here, having stumbled across the group while googling Valarin (language of the Valar). Lewis's work, fiction and theology and literary...
Very interesting blog. One small point: When Digory says "it's all in Plato!" I don't think he had the world as sacrament in mind: he was simply referring to...
In the Orthodox Church this coming Sunday is called Cheesefare Sunday -- the equivalent of the Western Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day. It is the...
An excellent example of our arrogant idea that His honour needs defending, like a human being. Cranmer seemed an honest man with honest principles - but...
"God has only us to defend his honour, and how can we do that if we leave off killing? Â Â Â Â Â I think that's from "Cranmer", but am quoting from memory. ...
O yes indeed. That is a truth we need reiterated over and over - or I do, anyway! I've just started Robert Farrar Capon's Hunting the Divine Fox. It looks like...
Protecting the Omnipotence. Source: Williams 1958 (1931):217 (Many dimensions). Chloe Burnett is lying in bed conscious of an intruder, after the Stone, and...
C.S. Lewis on 'The Place of the Lion'. Source: Carpenter 1978:99. "On 26 February 1936 Lewis wrote to Arthur Greeves: 'I have just read what I think is a...
Tolkien may have duisliked allegory, but if there is no allegory about Death and Purgatory in "Leaf by Niggle", there is certianly a very convincing imitatio...
... Perhaps Lewis was quite "postmodern" about it. He clearly distinguishes between "writerly"; and "readerly"; allegories. Since the allegory of love is a study...
There is just one allegory in the book; it is the sentiment of courtly love, expressed by means of allegorical poems.. So it probably is quite different from...
... I wonder what sort of his allegories he refers to there. In his letter to Tolkien about Beren & Luthien he refers to incipient allegories suggested to the...
... He wrote "The Allegory of Love", which is subtitled "A Study in Medieval(*) Tradition". It's about, and not an example of. It looked good when I read it or...
He did. It is a book about the courtly love customs of the Middle Ages. I have it, but have not read it all; it is scholarly and quite dense. Carolyn ... -- ...
... I think he wrote something called an allegory of love, or something like that, but I haven't read it. If I had web access I might try to look it up, but I...
Indeed yes. Of course, Lewis liked allegory all rigyht - and wrote it! Richard Sturch/ ________________________________ From: "eldil@yahoogroups.com"...
C.S. Lewis and allegory. Source: Carpenter 1978:30. Lewis wrote to Tolkien on 7 December 1929, after reading Tolkien's poem on Beren and Luthien, "The two...
C.S. Lewis - first reading of Charles Williams. Source: Carpenter 1978:98. "It was not until February 1936, when he was calling on Nevill Coghill in Exeter...
The Arthur legend and Norman propaganda. Source: Williams & Lewis 1974:195. "This name {Arthur} seems first to have been raised to royalty about 1075 (as far...
In the Charles Williams list (coinherence-l) we are having a joint read through Charles Williams's "All Hallows Eve", and this particular point might have...
This forum has been quiet of late, so when I saw this I thought it might be nice to posted here. Off-topic? Well, think of it in relation to "Till we have...
