Tag Archives: david downing

A Ham of Note in the History of Literature (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Last year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own blog-hoard or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Biography, Memorable Quotes, Throwback Thursdays | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Christopher Tolkien, Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, david downing, ham, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, letters, literature, Looking for the King, Lord David Cecil, owen barfield, rationing, WWII | 17 Comments

C.S. Lewis’ Science Fiction with Adam Mattern, David C. Downing, and Brenton Dickieson

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Last week we had an amazing Thesis Theater event, a great discussion about C.S. Lewis’ WWII-era science fiction trilogy. Recent Signum University MA graduate Adam Mattern was the central figure, presenting his thesis titled “An Image of the Discarded: C. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Friday, Fictional Worlds | Tagged Adam Mattern, C.S. Lewis, david downing, joy, Looking for the King, Marion E. Wade Center, Ransom Trilogy, Science Fiction, Sehnsucht, Signum University, The Discarded Image, The Pilgrim's Regress | 2 Comments

Adam Mattern on C.S. Lewis’ Science Fiction (Announcement)

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, March 14, at 6pm ET for a Thesis Theater with recent Signum University MA graduate Adam Mattern, who will present his thesis titled “An Image of the Discarded: C. S. Lewis’s Use of the Medieval Model … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Adam Mattern, C.S. Lewis, david downing, Marion E. Wade Center, Ransom Trilogy, Science Fiction, Sehnsucht, Signum University, The Discarded Image | 20 Comments

C.S. Lewis’ “Dymer”… or is it Deemer? (or Can Someone from the Buffyverse be Wrong?)

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

As I hinted last month, I have been reading and rereading C.S. Lewis’ Dymer. Lewis only kept a journal during his early Oxford years, 1922-1927. The diary’s posthumous title, All My Road Before Me, is taken from the first stanza of Dymer: … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged A.N. Wilson, Alister McGrath, All My Road Before Me, books, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, C.S. Lewis, Chad Walsh, david downing, Don King, Dymer, Monika Hilder, Poetry, Robin Sachs, The Quest of Bleheris | 38 Comments

A Place for “Till We Have Faces,” by David C. Downing, Wade Center Co-Director

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

For today’s Friday Feature I’d like to share the Wade Center blog for this month, highlighting a book that I really, really should write more about. Each time I reread Till We Have Faces it is richer than the last.