Volume 5 (2006) A Collection of Essays Presented at the Fifth Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends
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Essays
Screwtape's Millennial Toast
Louis A. Markos
Charles Williams, the "Other" Inkling
Thomas Howard
The Sympathetic Imagination: Healing the Wounds of Individualism in the Incarnational Aesthetics of C.S. Lewis
Philip Harrold
The Almighty is Slipping Past Us: C.S. Lewis and the Problems of Rote, Reverence, and Metaphor
Dave Fillman
C.S. Lewis, Apologist
Suzanne House Ebel
'A Sort of a Fairy Tale': Narrative and Genre in George MacDonald's Little Daylight
Rachel E. Johnson
Dorothy Sayers and the Responsibilities of the Christian Writer
Christine M. Fletcher
Dorothy Sayers and the Wiles of the Wicked One as Observed in Her Contribution to the Faustus Legend, The Devil to Pay
Paul R. Fetters
Charles Williams: Prophet of Glory
Susan Wendling
G.K. Chesterton Teaches the Millennial College Student
Drucella M. Crutchfield
Chesterton's Enjoyable Asceticism
Robert Moore-Jumonville
The Quest for Pity and Mercy in Tolkien's Middle Earth
Woody Wendling
What Has Aslan to do With Tash? C.S. Lewis and Natural Theology
Christina Hitchcock
Always Winter? C.S. Lewis and Hope for the Visual Arts
Jerry L. Eisley
Tolkien, MacDonald, and the Cauldron of Story
Catherine Barnett
'A Very Odd Piece of Work': A Glimpse into Dorothy L. Sayers's Nurture and Development of the Detective Story Genre
Anne Marie Hardy
The Voice of C.S. Lewis
Zan Bozzo
Ascending and Descending: Suffering, Spiritual Growth and Co-inherence in Charles William's Descent Into Hell
Jessica D. Dooley
Rooms as Cultural Approaches
Katie Garber
Charles Williams: Priest of the Co-inherence
Susan Wendling
Dante and Tolkien: Their Ideas about Evil
John Seland
C.S. Lewis and Frederick Buechner: Literary Expression of Faith
Victoria S. Allen
The Wardrobe, the Witch and the Lion
Louis A. Markos
MacDonald's Theology and his Fantasy Fiction
Colin Manlove
MacDonald's Counter-literature
Colin Manlove
Dedication
This collection is dedicated to David L. Neuhouser, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, author, scholar, and Director of the Center for the Study of C.S. Lewis and Friends. He has served the greater good of the Lewis and Friends Society, The Edwin W. Brown Collection, and the Frances White Ewbank Colloquium since their beginnings in the last century. For his friendship, vision, and dedication we offer him hearty thanks.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to tireless Lewis and Friends committee members Thom Satterlee (Chair), Laura Constantine (Secretary), Dave Neuhouser (Patriarch), Robert lay, Dan Bowell, William Ringenberg, Joe Ricke, Pam Jordan,a nd Kate Garber.
Also kudos to Jan King for superlative layout and editorial assistance, Steve Christensen for the colloquium logo, and Anderson Bindery for printing.
Special thanks to Joseph Pearce of Ave Maria University for judging the undergraduate writing contest.
And deep appreciation yet again to Ed Brown, Dan Hamilton, Jay Kesler, and Leland and LaRita Boren for their faithful support over the years.
Rick Hill
Editor and Concurrent Sessions DIrector
All essays copyright 2006 by the individual authors