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The One “True Myth”
Addison’s Walk — Just before 3am on the Sunday morning of the 20th September 1939, Tolkien, Lewis and another Inkling, Hugo Dyson, took a stroll along the Cherwell in the grounds of Magdalen College...
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C.S. Lewis And J.R.R. Tolkien
Magdalen Daffodils at Merton College, Oxford Lewis and Tolkien first met in 1926 at a Merton College English Faculty meeting. Initially Lewis noted some apprehension: In his diary, he wrote of the...
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The Friendship And True Myth
The walk along the river... I’ve posted on this before but this retelling of the story by Joseph Pearce in his Tolkien Man and Myth was so well done I shall do it again. Great book as the following...
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Mythopoeia — J.R.R. Tolkien
In his masterful essay “On Fairy Stories,” J. R.R. Tolkien describes the vital role played by these tales in the cultures of the world. They contain rich spiritual knowledge. The sun may be green and...
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J.R.R. Tolkien On Entering Faerie — Bradley J. Birzer
Edward Robert Hughes “Midsummer Eve” ca. 1908 To enter faerie — that is, a sacramental and liturgical understanding of creation — is to open oneself to the gradual discovery of beauty, truth, and...
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The Mystery of the Incarnation – Bishop Christoph von Schönborn
Christ Pantocrator, God incarnate in the Christian faith, shown in a mosaic from Daphni, Greece, ca. 1080-1100. Myth Became Fact Can a rational human being be expected to believe that a God, or a Son...
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Mythopoeia and Me – Derek Jeter
Mythopoetic thinking approaches cosmic reality first through a sure instinct that there exists a spontaneous accord between our spirit and that reality, then through the very quality which allows our...
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Narnia and the Retelling of the Christian Grand Narrative – Alister McGrath
The Chronicles of Narnia use an imaginatively transposed version of the Christian narrative to enable its readers to understand and cope with the ambiguities and challenges of the life of faith. An...
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C. S. Lewis’ Aslan: The Heart’s Desire – Alister McGrath
Lewis here transposes one of the central themes of works such as Mere Christianity into an imaginative mode. There is indeed a emptiness within human nature, a longing which none but God can satisfy....
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The Deeper Magic: Atonement In Narnia — Alister McGrath
One major theme in Christian theological reflection concerns how the death of Christ on the cross is to be interpreted, especially in relation to the salvation of humanity. These ways of interpreting...
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