Just a quick note to say that I have had an amazing conference at Taylor University this past week. The C.S. Lewis and Friends Colloquium is truly awesome, and I hope to come back to why I think so. My heart is full and overflowing, transformed by the generosity of spirit and intellectual curiosity I have encountered. It was not merely an academic conference but, for me anyway, a place of spiritual development.
So, for now, I am merely going to prepare for my day at the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. This is my 5th day and I have to leave on Friday. I have finished transcription corrections on The Quest of Bleheris, C.S. Lewis’ teenage chivalric tale that is still unpublished. I have immersed myself in C.S. Lewis’ early poetry and letters, and have been reading the tiny, tiny diaries of his best friend, Arthur Greeves. Where I left off yesterday, Greeves was heart-sick that Lewis was in the trenches in France. They both had a miserable Christmas, and I am reminded of the great freedom I enjoy.
To the stacks, the journals, to lives that could be forgotten but are not.
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True spiritual development will always be intellectually enriching (hobbits and even duffers can always grow in this regard). So glad that you have received so much in this regard.
Ah, of course it is. You are very right.
Agree totally Stephen. Not only intellectually enriching but it is intuitive as well. Like love, spiritual movement (the overcoming of separation between the man and Christ) anticipates the personal possibilities and reveals the potential dormant in the moved person.
Hi, Brenton! For now, is the best source for those of us who are curious about Lewis’s Bleheris, the account in Chapter 4 (“The Dungeon of a Divided Soul”) in David C. Downing’s The Most Reluctant Convert? Thanks.
Dale Nelson
Thanks Dale. Yes, Downing’s chapter but there is a more complete version in SEVEN from 98 or 99, and I think you can find it online. Don King also has a chapter on Bleheris that he republished in an essay collection, Plain to the Inward Eye. Drop me an email if you need better references.
Also, a sweetly worded note to the Wade with your wish to see it might help…. Dunno.
Yes — that’d be SEVEN Vol. 15 (1998) for Dr. Downing’s article.
ok
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