Over the 34 years since it was founded by two Oxford students, an impressive range of eminent writers and theologians have spoken at the C. S. Lewis Society’s meetings. In a fragmentary talk by Elizabeth Anscombe, she reflects on her notorious demolition of Lewis’ argument in Miracles, an event that effectively ended his career as an apologist; in another paper, Rowan Williams gives a fine reflection on Lewis’ most problematic novel, That Hideous Strength, arguing for unexpected depths and qualities while honestly acknowledging its less appealing features. Best of all is a fascinating piece by Tom Shippey on relations between Lewis and the Oxford English faculty. His deployment of Lewis’ mordant pen-portraits of some of its then luminaries (Henry Cec
22 October 2015, The Tablet
C.S. Lewis & his Circle: essays and memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society
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