Oxford University Press USA have just contracted a book of essays & memoirs from 30 years at the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society.
The book will be entitled C.S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays & Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society. It has been more than five years in the making: going through the Society’s tape archives, digitizing and transcribing selected talks, collaborating with authors and Literary Estates to produce authorized versions, and now working with OUP on the final format.
But we editors — Roger White of Azusa Pacific University, Brendan Wolfe, and I — are very pleased with the result:
I. ESSAYS
Philosophy & Theology
C.S. Lewis’ Rewrite of Chapter III of ‘Miracles’
Elizabeth Anscombe: Philosopher; debated Lewis at the Oxford Socratic Club
C.S. Lewis and the Limits of Reason
Stephen Logan: Musician, poet; Principal Supervisor in English, Clare College, Cambridge
C.S. Lewis, Defender of the Faith
Alister McGrath: Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, University of Oxford
Sacramentalism in C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams
Kallistos Ware: Metropolitan Bishop of Diocleia
Charles Williams and the Problem of Evil
Paul Fiddes: Professor of Systematic Theology, Oxford University
Literature
‘That Hideous Strength’, A Reassessment
Rowan Williams: Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Magdalene College Cambridge
Yearning for a Far Off Country
Malcolm Guite: Poet, singer-songwriter; Chaplain, Girton College, Cambridge
W.H. Auden and the Inklings
Michael Piret: Dean of Divinity, Magdalen College, Oxford
The Lewis Diaries: Lewis and the English Faculty in the 1920’s
Thomas Shippey: Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities (Emeritus), Saint Louis University
It All Began with a Picture: The Making of C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia
Walter Hooper: Editor & Biographer of C. S. Lewis; Literary Advisor to the C. S. Lewis Estate; Senior Advisor to the CSL Society
II. MEMOIRS
Memories of C. S. Lewis by his Family and Friends
The Lewis Family
Joan Murphy: Second cousin of C. S. Lewis
Recollections of Lewis
George Sayer: Former student, friend, and biographer of C. S. Lewis
Lewis as a Parishioner
Ronald Head: Former vicar, Holy Trinity Church Headington Quarry, where C. S. Lewis attended
Marrying C.S. Lewis
Peter Bide: Friend and priest of C. S. Lewis, officiated Lewis’ marriage to Joy Davidman
Memories of the Socratic Club
Stella Aldwinckle: Founder of the Oxford Socratic Club
Memories of the Inklings
The Inklings
Walter Hooper: Editor & Biographer of C. S. Lewis; Literary Advisor to the C. S. Lewis Estate; Senior Advisor to the CSL Society
Lewis and/or Barfield
Owen Barfield: Friend of C. S. Lewis, Inklings member, solicitor, philosopher, poet
Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of W.H. Lewis
John Wain: Friend of C. S. Lewis, member of Inklings, poet, novelist
Nevill Coghill and Lewis: Two Irishmen at Oxford
John Wain: Friend of C. S. Lewis, member of Inklings, poet, novelist
See the OUP Catalogue Entry for more information.