This essay seeks to contribute to ongoing study of the chronology and characteristics of C.S. Lewis's multi-step conversion to Christianity by inviting new consideration of features of three moments or phases of that process. Section 1 proposes adding ‘conversion to conscience’ in early 1930 as an identifiable phase in the process. Section 2 enters discussion of the dating of Lewis's conversion to theism in June or July of 1930 and its relation to his learning to dive, with attention to the emotional intensity of that conversion. Section 3 re-reads Lewis's explanations of his conversion to Christianity in the autumn of 1931, noting the extended time it took and the nature of his hesitancies before full commitment.
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This paper revisits C.S. Lewis's relationship with his Irish roots and offers a geo-critical reading of his 1951 novel Prince Caspian. An excavation of Irish elements latent in this text yields important insights into Lewis's preoccupations, including colonialism and conflict, and ecological crisis. The paper situates these concerns in an Irish cultural context but concludes that Lewis's thinking is of contemporary relevance and worthy of renewed focus, not only in Ireland but globally.
{"title":"The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical Return to C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian","authors":"Sharon Jones","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0175","url":null,"abstract":"This paper revisits C.S. Lewis's relationship with his Irish roots and offers a geo-critical reading of his 1951 novel Prince Caspian. An excavation of Irish elements latent in this text yields important insights into Lewis's preoccupations, including colonialism and conflict, and ecological crisis. The paper situates these concerns in an Irish cultural context but concludes that Lewis's thinking is of contemporary relevance and worthy of renewed focus, not only in Ireland but globally.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42839987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"James Como, Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C.S. Lewis and His Favorite Book","authors":"","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47928330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Rosegrant, Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey","authors":"Ivano Sassanelli","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44521722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Taliaferro, A Narnian Vision of the Atonement: A Defense of the Ransom Theory","authors":"Steven P. Mueller","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44095630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leonard J. DeLorenzo (ed.), The Chronicles of Transformation: A Spiritual Journey with C.S. Lewis","authors":"Nancy H. Enright","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44101207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C.R. Wiley, In the House of Tom Bombadil","authors":"M. Atherton","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47996999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nuno Simôes Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, Angélica Varandas (eds), Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien","authors":"Eduardo Segura","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46292337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tolkien's island of Númenor is a window on the classical tradition and its depiction of ancient civilizations such as Egypt, Persia, and Carthage. It connects Tolkien with two nineteenth-century trends: the attempt, fashionable among British intellectuals, to search for the ‘Semitic’ roots of their culture, and the negative association, established by hostile European countries, between the British empire and Carthage. Like Carthage, Númenor is a thalassocracy, engaging in the reviled practice of human sacrifice in honour of Melkor (a name strongly reminiscent of the Phoenician god Melkart), and its language, Adûnaic, has a ‘Semitic colouring’. But this language coexists with another, Quenya, described by Tolkien himself as ‘Elven-Latin’, used for ‘ceremony, and for high matters of lore and song’. Those two languages create a symbolic divide that harkens back to something that affected Tolkien personally: the centuries-long strife between Anglican Protestantism and Catholicism in his own country. This creates an interesting parallel with the original fable used by Tolkien as point of departure: Plato's story of the rise and fall of Atlantis, interpreted by modern scholars as a tale of Athens and its gradual slide into what the philosopher believed to be the wrong path.
{"title":"Elven-Latin and Semitic Adûnaic: Linguistic, Religious, and Political Strife in Tolkien's Island of Númenor","authors":"Pamina Fernández Camacho","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0176","url":null,"abstract":"Tolkien's island of Númenor is a window on the classical tradition and its depiction of ancient civilizations such as Egypt, Persia, and Carthage. It connects Tolkien with two nineteenth-century trends: the attempt, fashionable among British intellectuals, to search for the ‘Semitic’ roots of their culture, and the negative association, established by hostile European countries, between the British empire and Carthage. Like Carthage, Númenor is a thalassocracy, engaging in the reviled practice of human sacrifice in honour of Melkor (a name strongly reminiscent of the Phoenician god Melkart), and its language, Adûnaic, has a ‘Semitic colouring’. But this language coexists with another, Quenya, described by Tolkien himself as ‘Elven-Latin’, used for ‘ceremony, and for high matters of lore and song’. Those two languages create a symbolic divide that harkens back to something that affected Tolkien personally: the centuries-long strife between Anglican Protestantism and Catholicism in his own country. This creates an interesting parallel with the original fable used by Tolkien as point of departure: Plato's story of the rise and fall of Atlantis, interpreted by modern scholars as a tale of Athens and its gradual slide into what the philosopher believed to be the wrong path.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41548533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor","authors":"H. Williams","doi":"10.3366/ink.2023.0189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2023.0189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42132288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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