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A Chronological Summary of Contents
1 9 6 9 - 2 0 22
No. 1, November 1969
Report of founding meeting. Two pages.
No. 2, December 1969
Miracles. Business and discussion report. Essay: "The Incarnation in the Works of C.S. Lewis" by Byron Lambert. Eight pages.
No. 3, January 1970
"Christianity and Culture: An Interpretation of C.S. Lewis," with essay by Dr. Robert Ives; C.S.L. Question Box and Quiz #1. Twelve pages.
No. 4, February 1970
Meeting on "Objections to Lewis"; Society business. Five pages.
No. 5, March 1970
"Chronological Snobbery." Four pages.
No. 6, April 1970
Till We Have Faces. Four pages.
No. 7, May 1970
"Impressions of Lewis as a Man," with Miss Jane Douglass and Prof. Thomas Howard; essay, "An Enduring Friendship," by Miss Douglass. Six pages.
No. 8, June 1970
"C.S. Lewis and Modern Theological Thought," with Dr. Ronald Grimes. Three pages.
No. 9, July 1970
The Great Divorce. Essay: "C.S. Lewis as Amateur Philosopher" by Paul Vincent. Eight pages.
No. 10, August 1970
"CSL and Politics." Question Box. Three pages.
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No. 11, September 1970
The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle. Extracts
from letters. Question Box. Six pages.
No. 12, October 1970
Lyric poetry and the poetry of C. S. Lewis.
Question Box. Letters. Seven pages.
No. 13, November 1970
Reflections on the Psalms, with essay by Bryon Lambert. Question Box. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 14, December 1970
The Silver Chair and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Question Box. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 15, January 1971
The Abolition of Man, with "Notes" by Richard Hodgens. Articles: "A Brief Study of Implied Disjunctive Syllogisms" by J. R. Christopher; "Quid Est Veritas? Est Vir Adest" by Henry Noel; "The Greening of America and The Abolition of Man" by Eugene McGovern. Book notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 16, February 1971
The Pilgrim's Regress, with "A Guide" by Henry Noel. Notes. Letters. Twenty-four pages.
No. 17, March 1971
"C.S. Lewis: Literary Critic." Article by James Como: "The Critical Principles of C.S. Lewis." Bibliography of articles and books about Lewis. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 18, April 1971
Miracles. Articles: "The Reception of C.S. Lewis in Germany" by Gisbert Kranz; "The Composition of The Chronicles of Narnia" by Richard Shramko; "New Light on Narnia" by William Linden; Excerpts from "The Chronicles of Narnia and the Adolescent Reader" by John W. Montgomery. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 19, May 1971
"Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis," with excerpts from essay by Prof. Jack Boies. Essays: "All Lies in a Passion of Patience" by Eugene Warren; "What is the C.S. Lewis Society About?" by Henry Noel. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 20, June 1971
"Does the evolution of human consciousness, notably in the Counter-Culture, give grounds for optimism about the future of Mankind?," with Profs. Peter Kreeft and William Marra. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 21, July 1971
The Four Loves. Reprinted from Time, "Don v. Devil" (Sept. 8, 1947), "Defender of the Faith" (Dec. 6, 1963). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 22, August 1971
Mere Christianity. Two unpublished letters by Lewis. Essay: "On the CSL Theory of the Composition of the Chronicles of Narnia" by J.R. Christopher. Letters. Six pages.
No. 23, September 1971
A Grief Observed. Essay: "A Theological Triolet" by J.R. Christopher. Letters. Six pages.
No. 24, October 1971
"CSL on Words." Essays: "Philology in Out of the Silent Planet" ; by Karen Farley, and "CSL on Science" by Henry Noel. Notes. Letters. Six pages.
No. 25, November 1971
The Screwtape Letters, with "A Personal View" and "Some Accomplishments Claimed by the Lowerarchy" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Winning essays in the Screwtape Competition by "Another Clerk" and Craig Lawson. Essay: "Introduction to Lewis" by Charles A. Brady, reprinted from America (May 27, 1944). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 26, December 1971
"Memories of Lewis" with Christopher Derrick as guest speaker. Summary of the Question Box, QB I to QB 45, by Henry Noel. Essay: "C.S. Lewis: II" by Charles A. Brady, reprinted from America (June 10, 1944). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 27, January 1972
The Problem of Pain. Essay: "Apologist versus Apologist: A Critique of C.S. Lewis as 'Defender of the Faith'" by Norman Pittenger, reprinted from The Christian Century (October 1, 1958). Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 28, February 1972
Letters to Malcolm, with "An Appraisal" by Robert Merchant. Essays: "Star-Begotten on the Silent Planet" by Richard Hodgens; excerpts from "C.S. Lewis" by Walter Hooper, reprinted from The Franciscan (September 1967). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 29, March 1972
The Discarded Image, with excerpts from "A Survey" by Evelyn Herzog. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 30, April 1972
Poems. Notice by Walter Hooper of the death of Katherine Farrer. Essay: "Finding God in Narnia" by Charles A. Brady, reprinted from America (October 27, 1956). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 31, May 1972
"An Evening with Owen Barfield." Essay: "C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table" by the Rev. Canon Adam Fox. Notes. Letters. Ten pages. Supplement to No. 31: Reprint of "Philology and the Incarnation" by Owen Barfield with a bibliography of Mr. Barfield's works. Five pages.
No. 32, June 1972
"Lewis's View of Animals," with paper by Helen Cooper. Essays: "Narnia: The Journey and the Garden Symbols in The Magician's Nephew and The Horse and His Boy," by "Another Clerk" ; "Arthurian Torso: Lewis Among the Metaphysicals" by James Mark Purcell. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 33, July 1972
Out of the Silent Planet, with "The Planetology of C.S. Lewis: In Summary" by Richard Hodgens. Essays: "J.B.S. Haldane, Jailer" by Richard Hodgens; "Who was J.B.S. Haldane?" Question Box. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 34, August 1972
"Major Warren H. Lewis," with bibliography of Major Lewis. Essays: "Identifications of Lewis's Dedicatees; "Joy Davidman's Letter to a Comrade" by Jerome McGovern. Bibliography of Joy Davidman's Works. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 35, September 1972
"Lewis and Education." Essays: "Some Preliminary Thoughts on Lewis and Freud" by Hope Kirkpatrick; "'...And I Quote': A Survey of Lewis's Citations of George MacDonald" by Muriel Hutton. Summary of responses to the Society's questionnaire by Henry Noel. A note on college courses dealing with Lewis. Financial report. Eighteen pages.
No. 36, October 1972
A Preface to Paradise Lost, with essay by Donald A. Roberts. Essay: "C.S. Lewis in Milton Criticism" by James Como. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 37, November 1972
"Lewis and Rational Individualism." Essays: "Narrative Poems" by James Mark Purcell; "C.S. Lewis vs. Restoration Comedy" by J.R. Christopher; "Letter from Holland" by E.J. VanWaasdijk. Notes. Question Box. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 38, December 1972
Perelandra, with essay, "Myth and Belief in Perelandra" by James Como. Note on "Perelandra as Opera" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Eight pages.
No. 39, January 1973
"Obstinacy in Belief," with essay by Eugene McGovern. Memoir, "The Prophet Lewis" by Dr. Erik Routley. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 40, February 1973
"Lewis Contra Freud" with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Memoir, "Meeting with C.S. Lewis..." by Charles Wrong. Essay: "C.S. Lewis: Foe of Humanism" by George C. Anderson, reprinted from The Christian Century (December 25, 1946). Notes. Letters. Fourteen pages.
No. 41, March 1973
That Hideous Strength, with map of the University of Edgestow by Mary Kirkpatrick. Essay: "Can Lewis and Freud be Reconciled?" by Robert Plank. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 42, April 1973
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, with "An Introduction" by Kay Stevenson. Essays: "C.S. Lewis and the Worship of the Church" by Donald A. Roberts; "Lewis vs. Empson: Was Eden Plato's or OGPU's?" by James Mark Purcell; "A Reply to Dr. Plank" by Hope Kirkpatrick; "Lewis vs. Bultmann in L'Aigle" by Henry Noel; "A Production at Magdalen" by Mary Legg. Notes. Letters. Fourteen pages.
No. 43, May 1973
"Anthroposophy: The Teachings of Rudolf Steiner with Special Reference to C.S. Lewis," with essay by Amos Franceschelli. Book notes by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 44, June 1973
"Sehnsucht," with essay, "Sehnsucht and Joy" by Robert C. Rice. Essay: "The Scholar's Tale," reprinted from Times Literary Supplement (January 7, 1965). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 45, July 1973
The Four Loves: "Affection." Essays: "Miracles Rationalized," reprinted from Times Literary Supplement (June 14, 1947); "Lewis's Revision of Miracles, Chapter 3" by Eugene McGovern. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 46, August 1973
No meeting. Essay: "Dante in the Works of C.S. Lewis" by Dr. Gisbert Kranz, translated by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters from Charles Wrong concerning Lewis and suicide. Ten pages.
No. 47, September 1973
"Lewis, the Christian Rhetorician." Essay: "Myth in the Apologetic Works" by John Fitzpatrick. Photocopy of a letter and a sketch Lewis sent to Sr. Penelope, CSMV. Letters. Financial report. Eight pages.
No. 48, October 1973
"The Rules of the Game," with Prof. Paul Holmer. Essay: "Joseph Wood Krutch and C.S. Lewis: A Comparison and a Letter" by J.R. Christopher. A Narnian crossword puzzle. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 49, November 1973
The Four Loves: "Friendship." Essay: "C.S. Lewis and Homosexuality" by Margaret P. Hannay. A list of translations of Lewis's books; notes on "The Lewis Collection at Wheaton College"; "BBC Productions of Lewis's Works"; "A Memorial Service in Thankful Memory of C.S. Lewis." Eight pages.
No. 50, December 1973
"The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 51, January 1974
Reflections on the Psalms with essay by Robert Merchant. Memoir, "Recollections of C.S. Lewis" by Luke Rigby, O.S.B. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 52, February 1974
No meeting because of a snowstorm. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and Anthroposophy" by A.C. Harwood, reprinted from Anthroposophical Quarterly (Winter 1973). Photograph of Rudolf Steiner. Essay: "The Function of Criticism," reprinted from Times Literary Supplement (Nov. 3, 1961). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 53, March 1974
"Lewis and MacDonald." Essay: "An Introduction to the Curdie Books of George MacDonald, Including Parallels Between Them and the Narnian Chronicles" by Mary Kirkpatrick. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 54, April 1974
The Four Loves: "Eros." Essays: "Eros in That Hideous Strength" by Jack Haynes; "Warren Hamilton Lewis: An Appreciation" by Walter Hooper. Eight pages.
No. 55, May 1974
"Books Which Influenced Lewis." Essays: "Lewis and MacDonald" by Mary Kirkpatrick; "Tormance and C.S. Lewis" by William Linden; "Some Notes on Chesterton" by Eugene McGovern. Eight pages.
No. 56, June 1974
"Metaphor in The Great Divorce." Essay (excerpts): "The Great Divorce: Life After Death in Metaphor" by Lois Westerlund. "C.S. Lewis: A Bibliographical Supplement," compiled and annotated by J.R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 57, July 1974
The Four Loves: "Agape." Essays: "Some Little-Known Books in Lewis's Background" by Henry Noel. "How Your Bulletin Gets to You: A Mechanical Tale." Eight pages.
No. 58, August 1974
No meeting. Essays: "A Clear Thinker" by Hope Kirkpatrick; "The Child motif in That Hideous Strength" by Charles J. Nolan, Jr.; "C.S. Lewis and the Mind-Body Identity Thesis" by J.D. Memory; "Some Children's Thoughts on The Horse and His Boy." Question Box. Notes. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 59, September 1974
"Lewis as Seen by Those Who Knew Him" with essay, "The New Ingredient" by Eugene McGovern. Essays: "C.S. Lewis" by John Wain, reprinted from Encounter (May 1964); "Body and Mind in That Hideous Strength" by Laurie Lieb. Notes. Letters. Financial report. Fourteen pages.
No. 60, October 1974
Surprised by Joy. Essays: "An Analysis of 'The Apologist's Evening Prayer'" by J.R. Christopher; "The Inklings and the 20th Century: Did They Back Away?" by Corbin Scott Carnell (reprinted from Catholic Currents). Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 61, November 1974
Fifth Anniversary Issue. Report of the meeting by Robert Merchant. Essays: "A Clerke of Oxenforde" by James Como;" "Our First Five Years" by Eugene McGovern; "The Story of Two Lives" by Byron Lambert; "'From the Master's Lips'": "W.B. Yeats as C.S. Lewis Saw Him" by J.R. Christopher. "The Old Grey Mare," "Awake, My Lute!" and (with Owen Barfield) "Abecedarium Philosophicum." A Letter from Walter Hooper, A Letter to Clyde S. Kilby. Photographs. Reviews. Notes. Letters. The Charter of the Society. Twenty-four pages.
No. 62, December 1974
"The View of Woman in Lewis and in Charles Williams." Essay: "The Rebirth of Christ" by Jeffrey Hart, reprinted from National Review (Dec. 28, 1965). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 63, January 1975
The Green-Hooper biography of Lewis. Essays: "The People's New Clothes: A Biography, Its Readers, and Its Subject" by James Como; Paul Elmer More and C.S. Lewis" by Richard Doney and Byron C. Lambert. Eight pages.
No. 64, February 1975
"'Membership,' With Special Emphasis on Lewis's Idea of Hierarchy." Essay: "Hierarchy in C.S. Lewis" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 65, March 1975
"Echoes of St. Bonaventure in The Great Dance on Perelandra." Essays: "The Ubiquitous Center in Bonaventure and in Lewis" by Jaime Vidal; "Men and Morals in Space" by John M. Phelan, reprinted from America (Oct. 9, 1965). Eight pages.
No. 66, April 1975
"Life After Death: Visions of Lewis and Williams," with essay by Naomi Frost. Announcement of a Screwtape Competition, with sketch by Geoff Jeanes. Notice of the founding of the C.S. Lewis Society of Princeton University. Notes. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 67, May 1975
The use of Lewis's books in courses at Luther College, Teaneck, NJ. Excerpts from students' essays. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 68, June 1975
The Narnian stories. Essays: "'Other Worlds' in Fiction" by Geoff Jeanes; "The View from Malacandra" by Donald Watt. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 69, July 1975
"An Evening With Walter Hooper," which took the form of answers to questions from the audience. Essay: "C.S. Lewis in Cambridge: Some Personal Impressions" by R.W. Ladborough. Notes. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 70, August 1975
Special issue: "Opposition is True Friendship." Essays: "C.S. Lewis and Historicism" by Owen Barfield; "The Barfield-Lewis 'Great War'" by Lionel Adey; "The Common Ground of Lewis and Barfield" by James G. Colbert, Jr.; "Christianity and Progress" by Charles Wrong. Twenty-four pages.
No. 71, September 1975
"The Case for Christianity," with essay, "What Christians Believe" by Robert Merchant. "A Toast to the Memory of C.S. Lewis" by A.C. Harwood, with photograph. Notes. Letters. Financial report. Eight pages
No. 72, October 1975
"Belief: A Functional View," with essay by Beverly Arlton. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 73, November 1975
Till We Have Faces, with essay by James Como. Other essays: "Mystic Experience in Till We Have Faces" by Carolyn Keefe; "The Labors of Psyche: A Sorting of Events" by J.R. Christopher. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Fourteen pages.
No. 74, December 1975
The Great Divorce, with essay, "The Beginning of the Real Story: Images of Heaven in C.S. Lewis and Dante" by Lawrence Cobb. Short essay: "Why Are We Members of the C.S. Lewis Society?" by Lawrence Cobb. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 75, January 1976
The Allegory of Love, presented by Jim Tetreault and summarized for the Bulletin by James Como. Essay: "The Nature and Function of Myth in the Christian Thought of C.S. Lewis" by John T. Stahl. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Notes. Letters. Fourteen pages.
No. 76, February 1976
The Great Dance in Perelandra, with essay by John Kirkpatrick. Essay: "C.S. Lewis's Problem with Petitionary Prayer" by Eric C. Meyer, C.P. Letter. Twelve pages.
No. 77, March 1976
The Screwtape Letters, with essay, "Screwtape, Satan, and Sophistication" by Susan Hall. Winning entries in the Screwtape Competition, by Larry Walker and Jennifer Swift. Eight pages.
No. 78, April 1976
Narrative Poems, with essay by Richard Hodgens. Short essay: "The Three Roads: A Comment on 'The Queen of Drum'" by Carol Ann Brown. "MLA Seminars on Lewis" by James Como. Letters. Eighteen pages.
No. 79, May 1976
"Imagination and Reality" with Paul Holmer as speaker. Essay: "Memories of a January Term Abroad" by Constance Danner. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 80, June 1976
The Personal Heresy, with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letter. Eight pages.
No. 82, August 1976
No meeting. Essay: "Lewis's View of Science" by Martha C. Sammons. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Financial Report. Eight pages.
No. 83, September 1976
"The Poison of Subjectivism," with essay, "On the Objectivity of Moral Values" by Eugene McGovern. Essay: "Transformed Nature: 'Where is it Now, the Glory and the Dream?'" by J.R. Christopher. Twelve pages.
No. 84, October 1976
"Minitopics on Lewis," with essays, "The Land Where the Shadows Fall: The Idea of Heaven in C.S. Lewis" by Carol Ann Brown, and "Obedience and Surrender in Narnia" by John Morrison. Essay: "A Visit to the Wade Collection at Wheaton College" by Sr. Ignatius Miller, OSU. Notes. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 85, November 1976
Miracles, with essay by Robert Merchant. "A Prayer Written on the 13th Anniversary of C.S. Lewis's Death" by Corbin Scott Carnell. The By-Laws of the Eldila of the Society. Eight pages.
No. 86, December 1976
"Lewis and Eliot," with essay by James Tetreault. Quotations from Eliot, Lewis, and Lincoln. Reports of a conference on Lewis at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and on the Special Session on Lewis at the MLA convention. Book Notes. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 87, January 1977
An Experiment in Criticism, with an essay by Linda Bridges. "Charles Colson's Born Again." Eight pages.
No. 88, February 1977
Recording of The Screwtape Letters. Essays: "Masculine and Feminine: The Shape of the Universe" by Lawrence W. Cobb;" "Fantasy in a World of Monochrome: Where C.S. Lewis Continues to Help" by W. Fred Graham, and a reply to Graham by Stuart D. Robertson, both reprinted from The Christian Century. Notes. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 89, March 1977
"Narnia, The Magic Flute, and The Tempest," with Fr. William Eddy as Chairman. Essay: "C.S. Lewis: The Man and What He Stood For" by Lionel Adey. Eight pages.
No. 90, April 1977
Meeting devoted to "Minitopics." "A Lewis Evening in London" by Mary Kirkpatrick; "A Conference on the Oxford Christian Writers at Messiah College" by Susan F. Jonas; "Lewis, Sayers, and ?" (a selection of quotations) by Carol Ann Brown; Letters. Eight pages.
No. 91, May 1977
Letters to An American Lady, with essay by Dr. Dora Chaplin. Essay: "C.S. Lewis's Annotations to His Shakespeare Volumes" by Lionel Adey. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 92, June 1977
Narnia, with essay, "Once Upon a Narnia" by Carol Ann Brown. Essay: "The Angel of the Law in The Great Divorce" by Eugene Warren. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 93, July 1977
"Lewis on Husbands and Wives," with excerpts from an essay by Naomi Frost. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and the Formation of 'Mere Christianity'" by Roland M. Kawano.. Eight pages.
No. 94, August 1977
No meeting. The issue was devoted to the Society's first "Lewis Weekend," held at Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT, August 12-14. Essays: "Reflections of an Editor" by Walter Hooper;" "Orual's Complaint Against the Gods." Sixteen pages.
No. 95, September 1977
"Lewis: The Believing Skeptic." Essays: "Some Notes on C.S. Lewis's The Dark Tower and Other Stories" by Charles Brady; "Preparing a College Library Exhibit on C.S. Lewis" by Bela Kapotsy. A summary of the responses to the questionnaire that accompanied the September 1976 issue. Notes. Financial Report. Sixteen pages.
No. 96, October 1977
Out of the Silent Planet, with essay, "It All Depends on the Point of View" by Lois Westerlund. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and the Chinese" by Paul Clasper, reprinted from Quarterly Notes on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 97, November 1977
"Jolly Decent, Jolly Profitable: C.S. Lewis and His American Publishers," with William Griffin, Senior Editor at Macmillan. Essays: "Logres and Britain: The Dialectic of C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength" by John H. Timmerman; "The Rhetorical End: 'Venus at St. Anne's'" by Charles J. Nolan, Jr. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Notes. Fourteen pages.
No. 98, December 1977
"Lewis and ... Management?!" Essay: "'The Man Born Blind': Light in C.S. Lewis" by Martha C. Sammons. Eight pages.
No. 99, January 1978
"Chesterton and Lewis," with essay, "Chesterton and Lewis: The Necessary Angels" by John Martin. Brief essay: "Lewis and Charlotte Yonge" by Sr. Ignatius Miller, OSU. Fourteen pages.
No. 100, February 1978
"Words, and The Word," with essay by Amos Franceschelli. Notes. Letters. Three photographs of Lewis. Twelve pages.
No. 101, March 1978
The Four Loves, with essay by Emilie Griffin. Letters. Note. Eight pages.
No. 102, April 1978
The Dark Tower, with essays: "Notes on Lewis's The Dark Tower" by Richard Hodgens and "Touring The Dark Tower" by J.R. Christopher. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letter. Sixteen pages.
No. 103, May 1978
The Personal Heresy, with essay, "The Final Essays in The Personal Heresy" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 104, June 1978
"Lewis and Purgatory," with essay, "In the Dentist's Chair, or, Farther Up and Farther In?" by Burton Everist. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 105, July 1978
"Social Morality," with essay by Eugene McGovern. Eight pages.
No. 106, August 1978
No meeting. Essay: "The Ancients versus the Moderns: Thoughts on The Abolition of Man" by G.B. Tennyson, reprinted from The Occasional Review. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 107, September 1978
"Lewis on Death and Resurrection," with essay by Walter Ramshaw. Notes. Financial Report. Eight pages.
No. 108, October 1978
"Two Authors Whom Lewis Recommended," with essays: "Notes on a Lost Eulogy" (on Dorothy L. Sayers), by Carol Ann Brown; "One Who Gave 'Ardour to Virtue and Confidence to Truth'" (on Samuel Johnson) by Eugene McGovern. Twelve pages.
No. 109, November 1978
The Pilgrim's Regress. Essay: "The Talk of Christian Men" by Walter Hooper (a review of Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings, reprinted from Christian World). Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 110, December 1978
"Lewis, the Apologist," with essay by Robert Merchant. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 111, January 1979
Selected Literary Essays, with essay by Linda Bridges. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 112, February 1979
"C.S. Lewis and the Foolish Things of the World," with essay by John Martin. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Notes. Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 113, March 1979
Perelandra, with essay by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 114, April 1979
"Lewis on Prayer" with essay by Beverly Arlton. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 115, May 1979
Meeting devoted to a showing of the first two parts of "Through Joy and Beyond." Essays: "C.S. Lewis as medievalist" by Judith Kollmann; "The Sound of Friendship" by Owen Barfield (a review of They Stand Together, reprinted from Christian World). Letters. Eight pages.
No. 116, June 1979
C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table, with James Como. Essay: "Mirrors of Ourselves" by Carol Ann Brown. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 117, July 1979
Sheldon Vanauken's A Severe Mercy and Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings, with essay by Walter Ramshaw on A Severe Mercy. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 118, August 1979
No meeting. Essays: "Jane McNeill and C.S. Lewis" by Mary Rogers (reprinted from The Chronicle of the Portland C.S. Lewis Society); "A Note on The Abolition of Man" by James G. Colbert, Jr.; "Lewis's Objective Room: Key to Aesthetics" by Charles J. Nolan, Jr. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens, Notes. Eight pages.
No. 119, September 1979
"Fresh Views of Humankind in Lewis's Poems," with essay by John Kirkpatrick. Financial report. Eight pages.
No. 120, October 1979
"The Idea of Covenant in Narnia," with essay by John Morrison. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 121, November 1979
A celebration of the Society's Tenth Anniversary. Essays: "Equality" by C.S. Lewis (reprinted from The Spectator, August 27, 1943); "A Toast" by James Como; "The Society's First Ten Years" by Richard Hodgens; "Members' Responses to the Society's Questionnaire" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Two photographs of Lewis. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 122, December 1979
They Stand Together, with essay "Late Wine: The Letters to Arthur Greeves" by Eugene McGovern. Essay: "Was Lewis Consistent on Punishment and Purgatory?" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 123, January 1980
Showing of the third part of "Through Joy and Beyond." Essays: "The Heresy of Allegorizing Narnia: A Rejoinder" by Charles A. Huttar; "On the Excesses of Appreciation" by Bruce Edwards, Jr. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 124, February
"The Eldila in the Space Trilogy," with essay by John Willis, S.J. Essay-review, by James Como of Walter Hooper's Past Watchful Dragons and Peter J. Schakel's Reading with the Heart. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 125, March 1980
"C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams: Differences and Similarities in the Shape of Their Thought" with essay by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 126, April 1980
"C.S. Lewis on Conversion" with essay by Emilie Griffin. Essay: "Mother Hubberd's Tale and The Last Battle" by Russ A. Phelps. Notes. Ten pages.
No. 127, May 1980
"C.S. Lewis on Scripture," with essay by Michael Christensen. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 128, June 1980
"'The Taste of the Pineapple': A Basis for Literary Criticism," with essay by Jerry Daniel. Letters. Twelve pages.
No. 129, July 1980
Meeting devoted to minitopics on Lewis: "Inner Rings and C.S. Lewis" by John Helfrich; "An Objection to Lewis's Treatment of Storge" by Eugene McGovern. Essay: "That Hideous Strength: Antidote to Modernism" by Charles J. Nolan, Jr. Book Notes. Letters. Eight pages
No. 130, August 1980
No meeting. Essays: "Die Engel" by Carol Ann Brown; "Sehnsucht and the Platonic Eros in Dymer" by Michael D. Slack. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 131, September 1980
Reflections on the Psalms, with essay by Walter Ramshaw. Essay: "Lewis on Storge: A Rejoinder" by John J. Brugaletta. Financial report. Ten pages.
No. 132, October 1980
"The Screwtape Letters: A Description of the Manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library" by James Como. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 133, November 1980
"Broadening the Lewisian Context: Some Suggestions" with essay (published in the January 1981 issue) by James Como. Essay: "Letters from C.S. Lewis in the Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin: A Checklist" by Joe R. Christopher. Eight pages.
No. 134, December 1980
"'A Day With a White Mark' - Ten Readings From the Works of C.S. Lewis" by the CUNY Readers Theatre. Essays: "C.S. Lewis and the Poetry of Owen Barfield" by Thomas Kranidas; "C.S. Lewis in the Company of All the Saints" by Sr. Brenda Michael. Notes. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 135, January 1981
"Themes of Joy and Substitution in the Works of C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams," with essay by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald, and "The Coinherence of Charles Williams's Christian Symbols: An Outline" by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald. Essay: "Broadening the Lewisian Context: Some Suggestions" by James Como (presented at the November 1980 meeting). Letters. Sixteen pages.
No. 136, February 1981
The Great Divorce, with essay, "On Lizards and Stallions" by Michael Christensen. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letter. Eight pages.
No. 137, March 1981
"The Conscience and Moral Reasoning," with essay by Robert Merchant. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 138, April 1981
An informal debate on "Resolved: Lewis's Writings offer More Comfort to American Political Liberals Than They Do to American Political Conservatives." Essay: "C.S. Lewis and the Romantic Novel" by Don D. Elgin. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 139, May 1981
"Secondary Worlds: Lewis and Tolkien," with essay and two drawings by Sr. Pauline, CSM. Eight pages.
No. 140, June 1981
"The Politics of C.S. Lewis." Essays: "Malvern in My Time" by W.H. Lewis; "Lewis and Johnson on the Foundations of Morality." Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Eight pages.
No. 141, July 1981
"C.S. Lewis's Contribution to a 'Missionary Theology': An Asian Perspective," with essay by Paul Clasper. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 142, August 1981
The issue was devoted to the Society's Second Lewis Weekend. Essay: "Observations of a Trustee" by Walter Hooper. Letters. Financial report. Eight pages.
No. 143, September 1981
"Lewis and Chesterton: The Smell of Dew and Thunder," with essay by Jerry Daniel. Book Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 144, October 1981
"Lewis and Wagner," with essay by John Fitzpatrick. Book Notes by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Notes. Sixteen pages.
No. 145, November 1981
"C.S. Lewis as a Semanticist" with essay by Michael A. Covington. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 146, December 1981
"C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald: A Comparison of Styles," with essay by Gail Horsman. Essay: "Some Notes on Noel" by Carol Ann Brown. Eight pages.
No. 147, January 1982
"God Means What He Says: C.S. Lewis on Forgiveness," with essay by John Morrison. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 148, February 1982
"C.S. Lewis and the Visual Arts" a slide presentation and lecture by William Swetcharnik. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 149, March 1982
"Lewis as Communicator," with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 150, April 1982
Till We Have Faces, with essay, "Who is Ungit?" by Carol Ann Brown. Letters. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 151, May 1982
"Voices of Fire: Eliot, Lewis, Sayers, Chesterton," with essay by John Martin. Notes. Letters. Eighteen pages.
No. 152, June 1982
"C.S. Lewis Considered as a Surrealist," with essay by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 153, July 1982
Minitopics. Essays: "Lewis, Roman Catholicism, and Christopher Derrick" by Tim Corkery; "Reflections Provoked by On Stories" by Eugene McGovern. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 154, August 1982
No meeting. Essay: "A Lewis Capriccio" by John Martin. Notes. Financial report. Eight pages.
No. 155, September 1982
"Deconstruction and Rehabilitation: C.S. Lewis and Critical Theory," with essay by Bruce L. Edwards, Jr. Eight pages.
No. 156, October 1982
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, with essay by Austin and Ruth Turney. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 157, November 1982
"That Glorious Strength: Lewis on Male and Female," with essay by Neil Ribe. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Twelve pages.
No. 158, December 1982
Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis, with essay, "Routes of Regression: Brothers and Friends, Then and Always" by James Como. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 159, January 1983
The use of Lewis's books in education. Letter in Screwtape style translated from the French by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Book Notes. Poem: "On C.S. Lewis" by David Berkeley. Eight pages.
No. 160, February 1983
No meeting because of snowstorm. Essay: "The Writings of Joy Davidman Lewis (1915-1960)" (Part 1), by Paul Leopold. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 161, March 1983
"The Writings of Joy Davidman Lewis" (Part II) with essay by Paul Leopold. Letters. Ten pages.
No. 162, April 1983
"The Short Stories: A Critical Introduction" with essay (Part 1) by John Fitzpatrick. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 163, May 1983
"Science and Technology in the World of C.S. Lewis" with essay by Amedeo D'Adamo. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 164, June 1983
Playing of a tape of Lewis's "The Great Divide." Essay: "The Short Stories: A Critical Introduction" (Part 2), by John Fitzpatrick. Bibliographic Notes. Letters. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 165, July 1983
Discussion "From the Floor," with Jim Como as moderator. Essay: "The Short Stories: A Critical Introduction" (Part 3), by John Fitzpatrick. "Foreign Words in The Discarded Image" by George Musacchio. Eight pages.
No. 166, August 1983
No meeting. Essay: "The Things That Are Caesars!" by Owen Barfield. Notes. Bibliographic Notes. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 167, September 1983
"C.S. Lewis's Images" with essay by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald. Note. Eight pages.
No. 168, October 1983
"The Search for Joy Davidman" with essay by Lyle Dorsett. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 169, November 1983
"Knowing and Being in C.S. Lewis's 'Great War' with Owen Barfield," with essay by Stephen Thorson. Previously unpublished Lewis letter. Memorial at Yale. "C.S. Lewis and Inklings Societies." Notes. Letters. Book Notes. Sixteen pages.
No. 170, December 1983
"C.S. Lewis's Debt to George MacDonald," with essay by Gregory Wolfe. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 171, January 1984
No meeting because of snowstorm. Essay: "An Interview with C.S. Lewis and Meister Eckhart" by Lawrence Cobb. Notes. Letters. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 172, February 1984
"C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism," with essay by M.D. Aeschliman. Report on "Lewis in Germany" by Hope Kirkpatrick. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 173, March 1984
Playing of tape of the Ninth Annual Wade Lecture, delivered by Douglas Gresham at Wheaton College. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and 'The Nameless Isles': a Metaphor of a Major Change" by Roland M. Kawano. "The 'Great War' Revisited": Response to Dr. Thorson" by Lionel Adey, and "A Reply" by Stephen Thorson. (Note Thorson's essay in the November 1983 issue.) Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 174, April 1984
Minitopics: "The Characteristic Blindness of an Age" by Eugene McGovern; "A Letter from Malcolm" by John Helfrich. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 175, May 1984
"A Look into Narnia" by James Como. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and the Future of the World" by Peter Kreeft. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 176, June 1984
"Lewis as a Writer of Letters" with essay by Peter Hawkins. "The Politics of C.S. Lewis Reconsidered" by Danny M. Adkison. Notes. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 177, July 1984
Discussion "From the Floor" with James Como as moderator. Essay: "A Look into Narnia" by James Como. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 178, August 1984
No meeting. Essay: "Unfinished Business: Reflections on One Aspect of the Lewis Legacy" by Byron Lambert. CSL Weekend Report. Financial report. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 179, September 1984
"Arthurian Torso: Lewis's Commentary on Williams's Arthurian" with essay by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald. Book Notes. "Lewis's Acceptance of Paganism" by Robert Fisher. "The Need for Belief in the Narnian Chronicles" by Helen Aveling. Letters. Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 180, October 1984
"A Lewis Pupil, Richard Selig, 1929-1957," with essay by John Kirkpatrick. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 181, November 1984
"Through the Open Door" with essay by Dabney Hart. "Lewis on the Nature of Politics: Reply to Danny Adkison" by Gregory Wolfe. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 182, December 1984
"A Pleasure is Full Grown Only When It is Remembered: The First British C.S. Lewis Conference" with essay by John Morrison. Report on the Inklings Bicycle Tour, July 20 to August 10, 1984. Eight pages.
No. 183, January 1985
"Readings from Lewis" with Clara Sarrocco, Jack Haynes, Barbara J. Zelenko, William Eddy and Loretta Brooks as readers. Essay: "The Ritual Deaths and Rebirths of Elwin Ransom" by Myra Hinman. "Lewis and Friendship" by Matthew Borden. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 184, February 1985
"Readings from A Grief Observed" by Beverly Arlton and Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald. Essay: "A Gift from the Sky: The Creative Process in Lewis and Sayers" by Lawrence Cobb. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 185, March 1985
Panel discussion of "Lewis's Emancipation of Women" with Linda Bridges, James Como, Jane Cullen, Maggie Goodman, Hope Kirkpatrick and Greg Merchant as panelists, moderated by Robert Merchant. Essay: "On the Obstetrical Interpretation of Perelandra" by E.L. Core. Book Notes. Letter to Cynthia Donnelly. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 186, April 1985
"CSL and GKC: a Four Star Conversation" with essay by John Martin and Jerry Daniel. Notes. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 187, May 1985
"The Friendship of C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams" with essay by Corbin Carnell. "My First Encounter" by Neil Gussman. "A Challenge" by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Book Notes. Notes. Sixteen pages.
No. 188, June 1985
"Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis: The Interplanetary Trilogy of C.S. Lewis" with essay by Nancy-Lou Patterson. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 189, July 1985
Discussion "From the Floor" with James Como as moderator. Essay: "On the Nature of Prohibition in Perelandra" (Part 1), by Richard Hodgens. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 190, August 1985
No meeting. Essay: "On the Nature of Prohibition in Perelandra," (Part 2), by Richard Hodgens. Book Notes. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 191, September 1985
"C.S. Lewis as a Reader of Edmund Spenser" with essay by Katherine Gardiner. Byron Lambert's reply to Vic Reppert. Letters. Notes. Fourteen pages.
No. 192, October 1985
Studies in Words with essay by Hope Kirkpatrick. Eight pages.
No. 193, November 1985
Lewis's poetry with James Como and Linda Bridges as readers and discussion leaders. Essay. "Lewis's Influence on the New Inklings: The Chronicles of Narnia and John White's Tower of Geburah and The Iron Sceptre" by Martha C. Sammons. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 194, December 1985
"C.S. Lewis Between Classes," with essay by Maggie Goodman. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 195, January 1986
Joy Davidman's Weeping Bay with essay by Ruth Turney, and on "C.S. Lewis and Spiritual Direction" with presentation by Tim Corkery. Notes. Letters. Six pages.
No. 196, February 1986
No meeting due to snow. Essay: "Beer, Beowulf, and the English Literature Syllabus, 1936" by Henry William Griffin. Notes. "C.S. Lewis and the Emancipation of Women." "Who Said It?" (Quiz). Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 197, March 1986
"Of Time and Eternity: C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams," with essay by Doreen Anderson Wood. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 198, April 1986
Discussion of the format of future meetings of the Society. Photographic reproduction of "The Detestable Picture" described in Surprised by Joy. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 199, May 1986
"Abolition of Man, in Vitro" with presentation by Amedeo D'Adamo. Essay: "A Note on the Brown Girl" by Richard Hodgens. "Two-Day Lewis Pilgrimage" by Allen L. Borton. "From A-Roving to Zoo; A Look at Lewis's Vocabulary in Poems, Narrative Poems, and Spirits in Bondage" by Sara Park McLaughlin. Eight pages.
No. 200, June 1986
Lewis readings. Essay: "C.S. Lewis's Dymer: Once More with Hesitation" by Patrick D. Murphy. Eight pages.
No. 201, July 1986
Discussion "From the Floor" with James Come as moderator. Essay: "Lewis and Anscombe - Again" by Victor Reppert. Bibliographic Notes. Book Note. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 202, August 1986
No meeting. Essay: "A Note on a Source in 'Screwtape Proposes a Toast'" by David W. Landrum. Financial report. A Tribute to Clyde S. Kilby, 1902-1986. "An 'Acknowledgement'" by Lex 0. McMillan. "Lewis and the Future Tense" by Matthew Borden. Book Note. "Let Barbarous Things Have Barbarous Names" by Victor Reppert. Bibliographic Notes. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 203, September 1986
"Roots and Shoots: C.S. Lewis and the Evangelicals" with essay by Peter Rodgers. Eight pages.
No. 204, October 1986
"C.S. Lewis on Readers: A Resource for Writers" with essay by Neil Gussman. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 205, November 1986
Letters to an American Lady: "More a wave of the hand than a letter," with essay by Robert Merchant.
"A Lewis Reading Plan for the New Year" by Martin R. Johnson. "Lewis's Memory: A Further Note on a Source in "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" by Charles A. Huttar and Paul Leopold. Letters. Notes. Book Note. Bibliographic Notes. Eighteen pages.
No. 206, December 1986
Panel discussion of Lewis's view of Christmas, with Beverly Arlton, James Como and Lottie Lindberg as panelists. Essay: "Lewis and 'Xmas'" by Lottie Lindberg. Notes on Shadowlands. "Conference at the Kilns" by Bryan Shelley. Bibliographic Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 207, January 1987
Minitopics. Essay: "Large Aims and Modest Claims: The Inklings on Art" by Corbin S. Carnell. "More on Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life" by William Griffin. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 208, February 1987
"C.S. Lewis and the Latin Letters" with essay by Clara Sarrocco. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 209, March 1987
Till We Have Faces with James Como making the presentation. Essay: "Some Notes on the Inklings" by Robert B. Ives. Bibliographic Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 210, April 1987
"Grace Abounding to the Chief of Skeptics: C.S. Lewis as a Christian Prometheus" with essay by Lex McMillan. Letters. Book Notes. Notes. Sixteen pages.
No. 211, May 1987
Poetry in The Pilgrim's Regress with John Kirkpatrick making the presentation. Essay: "Paradox in Narnia: Unconscious but Inevitable" by Carla Faust Jones. Where Our Readers Live. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 212, June 1987
Showing of Shadowlands. Essay: "Shadowlands: Moving, Beautiful ... and True?" by John Fitzpatrick. A C.S. Lewis - Joy Davidman Chronology. Shadowlands on PBS. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 213, July 1987
Discussion "From the Floor" with James Como as moderator. Essay: "An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (Published Since 1973)" (Part 1), by Lisa Schildroth. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 214, August 1987
No meeting. Essay: "An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (Published Since 1973)" (Part 2), by Lisa Schildroth. Letters. Artwork Contest. Notes. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 215, September 1987
Dorothy L. Sayers with presentations by Loretta Brooks, Maggie Goodman and John Martin. Essay: "Dorothy L. Sayers: A Discursive Ramble..." by John Martin. "Report on the Dorothy L. Sayers Society Convention - 1987" by Maggie Goodman. Notice and apologies. Eight pages.
No. 216, October 1987
"C.S. Lewis and the Ministry of Spiritual Direction," with essay by Paul Clasper. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 217, November 1987
"Lewis's Images of the Plan of Creation" with essay by Lottie Lindberg. Letters. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 218, December 1987
Three essays in Present Concerns with presentations by Clara Sarrocco, Mary Ellen Davey and Jerry Daniel ("The Empty Universe"). Essay: "My First School" by Mary Ellen Davey. "Modern Man and His Categories of Thought" by Clara Sarrocco. Notes. Six pages.
No. 219, January 1988
No meeting because of snow. Essay: "The Masks of Lilith: A Comparison of C.S. Lewis's Reading of George MacDonald's Lilith and Till We Have Faces" by Kath Filmer. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 220, February 1988
No meeting because of snow. Essay: "The Concept of Heroism in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy" by Ronda Chervin. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 221, March 1988
"Lewis and Symonds on Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso" with essay by Richard Hodgens. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 222, April 1988
"C.S. Lewis as a Book Reviewer" with essay by Jerry Daniel. Book Note. Eight pages.
No. 223, May 1988
Lewis's views of the spiritual with essay, "Oops" by John Morrison. Eight pages.
No. 224, June 1988
"Parallels between C.S. Lewis's Surprised by Joy and Francis Thompson's The Hound Of Heaven," with essay by Leo H. Madden. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 225, July 1988
Discussion "From the Floor" with Robert Merchant as moderator. Essay: "The Idea of Magnanimity in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy" by Linda Vance Lusk. Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Fourteen pages.
No. 226, August 1988
No meeting. Essay: "C.S. Lewis: The Oracle of Elfland" by John Martin. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 227, September 1988
"C. S. Lewis and America's Inner Rings" with essay by Danny M. Adkison. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 228, October 1988
"CSL and You: The Society's Questionnaire" with essay by James Krueger. Book Notes. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 229, November 1988
Commemoration of Lewis on the anniversary of his death and of the Society, founded nineteen years ago. Essay: "An Imaginary Interview" by John Martin. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 230, December 1988
"The Centrality of Rhetoric to an Understanding of C.S. Lewis" with James Como as presenter. Two short essays: "A Tolkienian Note on Rhetoric" and "Take That Look Off Your Face: A Note on Lewis and Joyce." Book Notes. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 231, January 1989
Meeting devoted to "Readings from Lewis" with Walter Ramshaw, Marilyn Driscoll, and Warner Davis as readers. Essay: "Screwtape Thinks Again" by John B. Witchell. Book Reviews. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 232, February 1989
"Of Children and Magic Worlds: The Children's Stories of C.S. Lewis and E. Nesbit (Part 1)" with essay by Mary Ruth Howes. Nesbit Bibliography. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 233, March 1989
Reviews of Sayer's Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times. Essay: "Of Children and Magic Worlds: The Children's Stories of C. S. Lewis and E. Nesbit" (Part 2), by Mary Ruth Howes; "C.S. Lewis for the C.S. Lewis Fan: Jack by George Sayer" by Barbara J. Zelenko. Book Notes. Eight pages.
No. 234, April 1989
Discussion of Douglas Gresham's talk given at the 1988 Lewis Weekend. Essay: "To Whom is Lewis Writing?: Biographical Continuities in Letters of C. S. Lewis" by Joe R. Christopher. "A Note on Literary Allusions" by Paul Leopold. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 235, May 1989
"The Personal God of George MacDonald" with essay by Bill Bowen. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 236, June 1989
"The Latin Letters, Recalled" with essay by Clara Sarrocco. "Five Sonnets" by Matthew Borden. Eight pages.
No. 237, July 1989
Discussion "From the Floor" with Jim Como as moderator. Essay: "C.S. Lewis and Contemporary Christian Philosophy" by Victor Reppert. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 238, August 1989
No meeting. Essay: "Hierarchy and Nobility in Narnia" (Part 1) by Shirley Marney. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 239, September 1989
"Why Lewis is Special" led by Beverly Arlton. Essay: "Hierarchy and Nobility in Narnia" (Part 2) by Shirley Marney. Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 240, October 1989
"Nourishment Scenes and Themes in Lewis" with essay by Ronald Curtis Stamps. Eight pages.
No. 241, November 1989
"Sacramental Mysticism in Chesterton and Lewis," presented by Ian Boyd, C.S.B. Essay: "Why Do They Come?" (Comments by long-time Society members). "From Our First Issue." Letters. Notes. Eight pages.
No. 242, December 1989
"Worthwhile Objections to Lewis," presented by Jim Como and John Martin. Essay: "Narnia as Meditation on the Christian Year" by Sr. Brenda Michael. Notes. Letters. Eight pages.
No. 495 – January/February 2020
“Crosses and Wreathes Made to Order (Austin Farrrer– A Celebration of Faith)” by Clara Sarrocco. “C.S. Lewis and Cervantes on Bad Stories” by David Kornegay. Contents of the Bulletin 2019. Reports of the October 11, 2019 and the November 8, 2019 meetings. Book Review of The Great Tower of Elfland: The Mythopoeic View of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton and George MacDonald by Zachary A. Rhone. Kent State University Press, 2017. Reviewed by Gwendolyn Starks. Jack & the Bookshelf #46 (Charles Williams's James I) by Dale Nelson. Sixteen pages.
No. 496 – March/April 2020
“Janie Moore: The 'Mother' of C.S. Lewis” by Joel D. Heck. Jack & the Bookshelf #47 (Clare Kipps' Sold for a Farthing) by Dale Nelson. Report of the December 13, 2919 meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 497 – May/June 2020
“C.S. Lewis & the Socratics: How to Talk to Those who Disagree with You” by Josiah Peterson. (Address at the 50th Anniversary of the New York C.S. Lewis Society, 20 October 2019.) Reports of the February 14, 2020 and January 10, 2020 meetings. Book Review of The Reading Life (The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes). C.S. Lewis, Edited by David C. Downing and Michael G. Maudlin. HarperOne, New York, 2019. Reviewed by Clara Sarrocco. Jack & the Bookshelf #48 (John Wain's Sprightly Running)) by Dale Nelson. Sixteen pages.
No. 498 – July/August 2020
“Some Thoughts on the Poetry of C.S. Lewis” by Charles Franklyn Beach. Reports on the March 13, 2020 and June 12, 2020 meetings. Jack & the Bookshelf #49 (William Morris' The Well at the World's End) by Dale Nelson. “A Problem in Communication” by Joe R. Christopher. Sixteen pages.
No. 499 – September/October 2020
“C.S. Lewis as a Vehicle for the Liberal Arts - Part I (A Mathematician Steals into Narnia”) by David Calvis. Jack & the Bookshelf #50 (The Letters of Robert Southey: A Selection) by Dale Nelson. “C.S. Lewis and the Wait of Glory” by John J. Brugaletta. Sixteen pages.
No. 500 – November/December 2020
“C.S. Lewis as a Vehicle for the Liberal Arts – Part II (A Mathematician Steals into Narnia)” continued from the September/October Bulletin by David Calvis. Report of the September 11, 2020 meeting by Erin Seidel. “Walter Hooper: 1931-2020 – A Brief Memoir, and Personal” by James Como. Jack and the Bookshelf # 51 (Morton N. Cohen's Rider Haggard: His Life and Works) by Dale Nelson. Book Review of The Neglected C.S. Lewis by Mark Neal and Jerry Root. Paraclete Press, 2020. Reviewed by Sarah Waters. “Northwind Doctoral Program in Romantic Theology” by Michael J. Christenson. Sixteen pages.
No. 501 – January/February 2021
“Austin Farrer - A Hawk Among Sparrows” by Joel Heck. Jack and the Bookshelf No. 52 (H. A. Blair's A Stranger in the House) by Dale Nelson. Report of the October 9, 2020 Meeting. Report of the November 13, 2020 Meeting. Report of the December 11, 2020 Meeting. Contents of the Bulletin 2020. Letters. Twenty pages.
No. 502 – March/April 2021
“C.S. Lewis and St. Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Evil or The Problem with the Problem of Evil” by Paul Kucharski. Jack and the Bookshelf No.53 (S.T. Coleridge's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”) by Dale Nelson. “Cooking Jack – A Contrarian View” by James Como. Book Review of Lewis on the Christian Life (Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God) by Joe Rigney. Crossways, 2018. Reviewed by Josiah Peterson. Book Review of Splendour in the Dark (C.S. Lewis 's Dymer in His Life and Work) by Jerry Root, notes by David Downing. InterVarsity Press, 2020. Reviewed by Dale Nelson. Report of the January 8, 2021 Meeting. Report of the March 12, 2021 Meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 503 - May/June 2021
“C.S. Lewis and the Limitations of Intellect” by Steve Morris. “Reflections on Mere Christianity's Preface” by Kevin Offner. Jack and the Bookshelf No. 54 (S.T. Coleridge's Christabel) by Dale Nelson. Report of the April 9, 2021 Meeting. Letter. Sixteen pages.
No. 504 – July/August 2021
“CSL and DLS - Some Further Thoughts” by Margaret Goodman. “The Theology of Tolkien's Secondary World” ( essay by Dale Nelson of of Sam McBride's Tolkien's Cosmology: (Divine Beings and Middle-earth). Kent State University Press, 2020. Book Review by Deal Nelson of After Humanity (A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man) by Michael Ward. Word on Fire Academic, 2021. Report of the May 14, 2021 Meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 505 – September/October 2021
“For God and Country – The Wartime Works of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis” by Kevin Flaherty. ”My Favorite Childhood Book” interview with Susanna Clark. “C.S. Lewis Titles from Library of Author's Friend to be Sold” from finebooksmagazine.com. Book Note - Fr. Dwight Longenecker's Reluctant Allies: Essays on Eliot and the Inklings (Foreword by Joseph Pearce) by Louis Markos. “Our Visit to the Wade” by Frances Holman. Report of the June 11, 2021 Meeting. Report of the July 9, 2021 Meeting. Sixteen pages.
No. 506 – November/December 2021
“An Assessment of G. K. Chesterton's Heretics” by Charles Franklyn Beach. “C.S. Lewis and. . . Being the First in a Series of Satirical Lewis Criticism of Which No more Will be Written” by Charles W. Starr, B.A., M.A., D.A., Scarlet A. Book Review of No Ordinary People (Twenty-one Friendships of C.S. Lewis) by Joel Heck. Winged Lion Press, 2021. Reviewed by Louis Markos. Sixteen pages.
No. 507 – January/February 2022
“C.S. Lewis and The Wind in the Willows” by Josiah Peterson. “Flannery O’Connor on Till We Have Faces.” C.S. Lewis in the Pepys Library: A Biographical Trifle” by Charles Huttar. “C.S. Lewis Bibliography—Additional Items, 2022” by Stephen Thorson. “Bill McClain – A Remembrance” by Clara Sarrocco. “Notes From Our Readers.” Contents of the Bulletin 2021. Twenty-four pages.
No. 508 – March/April 2022
“Stella Aldwinckle, Atheists, and Agnostics” by Joel Heck. Book Reviews of Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life by Rolf Dobelli. Hodder & Stoughton, 2020 and From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith by Louis Markos. InterVarsity Press, 2021. Reviewed by Dale Nelson. “C.S. Lewis, Bibliography—Drawings, Holographs, Annotations, and Inscriptions” by Stephen Thorson. Meeting Reports of the September 2021, November 2021 and December 2021 Meetings. Twenty pages.
No. 509 - May/June 2022
“Layered Landscapes: C.S. Lewis’s ‘Other Worlds’” by James Como. Book Reviews (One Book Two Reviews) Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages by Holly Ordway. Word on Fire Academic, 2021. Reviewed by Dale Nelson and Josiah Peterson. “Cameo Appearance: A Note on Jesus in That Hideous Strength” by Patrick Gray. “‘Of This and Other Worlds’ A Report from Romania” by Erin Seidel. “Jack and the Bookshelf #56 – Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit” by Dale Nelson. Meeting Reports of the January 2022 and February 2022 Meetings. Twenty pages.
No. 510 – July/August 2022
“Temptation Hooks and Resistance Strategies (Discussion Points for The Screwtape Letters)” by Ronald E. Wheeler. “Mastering Inkling Erudition (Sounding Like an Expert Without Accumulating Multiple Ph.D.s)” and “The Mere Oxford Inkling Erudition Chart” by Robert C. Stroud. Book Reviews of The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind. InterVarsity, 2022 and Coyote Fork: A Thriller by James Wilson. Wipf and Stock, 2020, by Dale Nelson. Meeting Reports of the February 2022, March 2022 and April 2022 Meetings. Letters. Twenty pages.
No.511 – September/October 2022
C.S. Lewis and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Josiah Peterson. “C.S. Lewis on the Importance of Dying to Self as the Way Forward in Christian Maturity” by Kevin Offner. Sixteen pages.
No. 512 – November/December 2022
“An Introduction to Subversive by Crystal Downing” by Margaret Goodman. “The Golden Age of Modern Fantasy: A Quarter Century in the Reading of Lewis, Sayers, Tolkien and Williams” by Dale Nelson. Report of the May 2022 Meeting. “C.S. Lewis: A Sonnet” by Malcolm Guite. Letters. Twenty pages.
No. 513 – January/February 2023
“C.S. Lewis & John Buchan: Two Outsiders and the Inner Ring” by Marcus Paul. Book Review of The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine. Oxford Bodleian Library, 2022. Reviewed by Dale Nelson. Meeting Reports of the June 2022, September 2022, October 2022, November 2022, and December 2022 meetings. Contents of the Bulletin 2022. Sixteen pages.
No. 514 - March/April 2023
“‘De Futilitate’ and The Problem of Good” by Mark Wagner. “Consumer Materialism and Christian Hope” by Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) with An Introduction to the Talk by James A. Motter. Jack and the Bookshelf #57 – Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book by Dale Nelson. Book Review of Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don King. Kent State University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Dale Nelson. Twenty pages.
No. 515 - May/June 2023
“Albert Lewis: ‘A Tremendous Personality’” by Joel Heck. Book Reviews of Becoming C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898-1918). The Making of C.S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918-1945). The Completion of C.S. Lewis: From War to Joy (1945-1963). (Lewis Trilogy) by Harry Lee Poe. Crossway, 2019, 2021, 2022. Reviewed by Dale Nelson. Jack & the Bookshelf #58 – Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Dale Nelson. Meeting Report of January 2023 meeting. Twenty-four pages.
No. 516 – July/August 2023
“On Everything, On Something, On Anything, or Nothing: The Life, Writings, and Controversies of Hilaire Belloc” by Charles Franklyn Beach. “Seek and Ye Shall Find – Almost Everywhere: A Note on The Argumentative Lewis” by James Como. Book Review of Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy by Christiana Hale. Roman Roads. 2020. Reviewed by Dale Nelson. Meeting Reports of the February 11, 2023 and April 14, 2023 meetings. Twenty pages.
No. 517 – September /October 2023
“William Lindsay Gresham and the Inklings: A Look at Nightmare Alley” by G. Connor Salter. “C. S. Lewis on the Signs of the End of Civilization” by Kevin Offner. Book Review of Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography by Holly Ordway. Word on Fire Academic, 2023. Reviewed by Dale Nelson. Report of the May 12, 2023 meeting. Twenty pages.
No. 518 - November/December 2023
“C.S. Lewis: Supervisor” by Alastair Fowler. A New Society Website. Reports of the June 9, 2023, July 14, 2023, and September 8, 2023 meetings. Jack and the Bookshelf #59 – E. R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros by Dale Nelson. Twenty pages.
"Shortly after Lewis died, those who knew his works were far fewer than now, and they delighted in giving and receiving new light on Lewis's books. ... Many of us hung on the latest issue of CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society and other publications, eager to know what the others were saying about this remarkable writer."
Walter Hooper, from his Foreword to Beyond the Shadowlands
Walter Hooper
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