2004 Frances White Ewbank C.S. Lewis & Friends Colloquium
Overview
Walter Hooper was the featured speaker on C.S. Lewis and gave two lectures. Hooper, who resides in England, worked as the private secretary to Lewis, currently works closely with the Lewis Estate, and is a recognized author and editor in the field of Lewis studies.
Barbara Reynolds was the featured speaker on Dorothy L. Sayers and spoke on Sayers' views on world affairs including a discussion of "The Just Vengeance." Reynolds also resides in England. She was a friend and biographer of Sayers, completed Sayers' translation of Dante's Paridiso, and edited a five volume of Sayers' letters.
Also coming from England were Ian Blakemore and Rachel Johnson who spoke on George MacDonald. MacDonald was a preacher, poet, novelist, and mythmaker whose work had a large influence on many people, including Lewis.
Kim Gilnet from the C. S. Lewis Foundation presented a slide show documenting the process of restoring C. S. Lewis's home, The Kilns. Chuck Chalberg presented a one man dramatic performance on the life of G. K. Chesterton. Barbara Amell, editor of "Wingfold" presented a program of original music with lyrics by George MacDonald. Other speakers included Bruce L. Edwards, Bowling Green State University (The Taste of the Pineapple : essays on C.S. Lewis as reader, critic, and imaginative writer. ed. and Great Ideas: Conversations between past and present, with Klein and Wymer.); David C. Downing, Elizabethtown College (Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy and The Most Reluctant Convert: Lewis's Journey to Faith); and Crystal Downing, Messiah College (The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers, coming soon from Macmillan.)
A wide variety of books (new, used, and rare) were available for purchase from the following book sellers: Ian Blakemore, Rosley Books, was here from England and Ed Hopkins, The Inklings Bookshop, from Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Colloquium featured concurrent sessions and the presentation of related papers. Proposals for 20-minute papers were welcome.
Student Writing Contest
Proceedings Table of Contents
The Importance of Being Dorothy L. Sayers
by Barbara Reynolds
C.S. Lewis and the Ordinary Man
by James M. Spencer, Covenant Christian High School
C.S. Lewis's Idea of Happiness
by Tracey Finck
C.S. Lewis, Tutor
by Joel D. Heck, Concordia University
George MacDonald's Insights into Science and Religion
by Mary Ellis Taylor
Casting Light on Lilith: A Biblical Approach
by Marie K. Hammond
The Season for the Hawthorn to Blossom
by Robert Trexler, editor CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society
How the Hobbits Saved Civilization
by Robert Moore-Jumonville, Spring Arbor University
Why is the Only Good Orc a Dead Orc
by Anderson Rearick, Mount Vernon Nazarene University
C.S. Lewis's Insights on the Suffering of Animals
by Gabriele Greggersen, Universidade Presbiteriano Mackenzie, Brazil
Reading Lewis Reading: Oral Narrative and Literate Pedagogy in the Chronicles of Narnia
by Nicole DuPlessis, Texas A&M University
Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C.S. Lewis
by David C. Downing, Elizabethtown College
A Cloud of Witnesses: A Collection of Quotes about Victorian Author George MacDonald
by Darrel Hotmire
George MacDonald on Psychology
by Barbara Amell, Wingfold Editor
MacDonald, the Revelation of God, and Literature
by Darren Hotmire
The Hero's Journey of Eustace on the Voyage of Becoming: What kind of Animal Do You Want to Be
by Elizabeth McLaughlin, Bethel College (IN)
C.S. Lewis and Mark Twain: Iconoclasts of a Feather?
by Rick Hill, Point Loma Nazarene University
Of Urban Blockheads and Trousered Apes: C.S. Lewis and the Challenge of Education
by Paul E. Michelson, Huntington College
To Hell and Back Again: Edmund's Transformation
by Heidi Beutel, Asbury College, First Place Student Essay Winner
A Matter of Chivalry: C.S. Lewis's Response to Pacifism and the Just War Theory
by Peter Barrett, Taylor University, Second Place Student Essay Winner
Not a Tame Lion: What This Does and Does Not Mean
by Raven Richardson, Asbury College, Third Place Student Essay Winner
Silent Music: The Letters of Ruth Pitter
by Don King, Montreat College
The Secret of Father Brown: What is Christian Detective Fiction?
by Rachel Kellogg, Taylor University Fort Wayne
Dorothy L. Sayers and Russian Orthodoxy
by Crystal Downing, Messiah College
Lewis on the Gospels as True Myth
by Bruce W. Young, Brigham Young University
Narrating Pain: C.S. Lewis and the Problem of Evil
by Samuel Joeckel, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Personal Honesty as an Epistemological Key in the Works of C.S. Lewis
by Mike Mitchell
The Problems of Pain: Two Distinct Difficulties in the Face of Suffering
by Byron J. Powell, Taylor University (student)
The Fisher Within the Spiritual Geography of C.S. Lewis's Perelandra
by James D. Lopp, III, Butler University
In Defense of the Fairy Tale: C.S. Lewis's Argument for the Value and Importance of the Fairy Tale
by Constance Rice, Northwest College
C.S. Lewis as Plagiarist: Some Grey Areas in the Grey Town
by Thom Satterlee, Taylor University
Comparing Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke
by John Seland, Nanzan University, Japan
The Three Faces of Fairy
by Scott P. Johnson & Alesha D. Seroczynski, Bethel College (IN)
The Magic Makes All the Difference: George MacDonald's Fairy Tales a Child's Eye View
by Rachel Johnson
