Tuesday, 19 July 2016

The next step in Inklings studies? The Inklings as group complementarity

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Continuing from http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-inklings-group-theology-implicit-in.html If we consider The Inklings ...
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Thursday, 30 June 2016

Are Elves and Dwarves really-real?

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Yes - of course - unless you adopt the usual modern metaphysical assumption that they cannot be real (because 'science has proven' t...
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Transition from French-Norman to Germanic romance in The Notion Club Papers

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The Notion Club Papers begins as a modern novel, and its first move out of the everyday and modern comes with the accounts of Ramer's dr...
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Sunday, 26 June 2016

Magic as (Barfieldian) Participation in Tolkien's Legendarium - Druedain are Original Participation, High Elves are Final Participation

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During the journey to Gondor in The Lord of the Rings , the Riders of Rohan meet with a group of hunter-gatherers called the Druedain - Tol...
Friday, 10 June 2016

The Lord of the Rings is true, of course - but in what way?

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I remember being aged about 14 and being mildly mocked and teased for believing that Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was true - the person d...
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Friday, 27 May 2016

Is this the voice of Charles Williams?

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This BBC TV presenter is listed as having been born in North London and grown-up in St Albans - much like Charles Williams. So, is this (mor...
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Sunday, 8 May 2016

Arry Lowdham = Tom Shippey - another Notion Club Member identified!

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I have just realized that Arry Lowdham is meant to be Professor Tom (T.A.) Shippey - lightly disguised, but unmistakeable. https://en.wik...
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Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Owen Barfield's Final Participation (God-Man polarity) in a Christian Context

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It was seemingly difficult for Owen Barfield to express clearly what he meant by Final Participation of human consciousness - indeed I think...
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Monday, 2 May 2016

Charles Williams's novels available on Kindle for a price of next-to-nothing

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http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/charles-williams-novels-on-kindle-from.html
Friday, 29 April 2016

What if The Lord of the Rings really *had* been an allegory of World War II?

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In his Foreword to the 1966 Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien was at pains to emphasize that the book was not an allegory: in...
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Thursday, 28 April 2016

The initial appeal of Charles Williams

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The first time I tackled Charles Williams was after reading Humphrey Carpenter's group biography The Inklings , which was during late 19...
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Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Review of Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer

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Diana Pavlac Glyer. Bandersnatch: CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the creative collaboration of the Inklings . Black Squirrel Books: Kent, Ohio. 2...
Monday, 25 April 2016

The incompleteness of argument in Rudolf Steiner's Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception - the "least read, most important book Steiner ever wrote" according to Owen Barfield

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I have recently been grappling (almost literally!) with Rudolf Steiner's The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Concepti...
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Friday, 22 April 2016

The Inklings in a group portrait

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At last someone has done a picture of the Inklings: James A Owen, for a newly published book Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer (review to ...
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If Barfield is accepted as the Inklings' philosopher, in a lineage of Coleridgian Romantic philosophy focused on The Imagination, then the Inklings as a group-identity are not 'reactionary' but looking towards the future evolution of consciousness

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If it is assumed that the Inklings can be characterized as more than the sum or their parts and more than a shared essence - http://notionc...
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Thursday, 21 April 2016

The link between evolution of consciousness and reincarnation in the work of Owen Barfield

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Owen Barfield's central idea, and the one for which he is best known, is the evolution of consciousness - meaning that the nature of hu...
Monday, 18 April 2016

Owen Barfield and Romanticism

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http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/romanticism-comes-of-age-owen-barfields.html
Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Which Inkling are you?

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http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/which-inkling-are-you-most-like-my.html
Thursday, 7 April 2016

The Inklings 'Group-Theology' implicit in Barfield, Lewis, Tolkien and Williams

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My ultimate reason for reading the Inklings is a 'spiritual advisers' - as a group, and not only as individuals, I believe they cons...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Reviews of Unancestral Voice and Night Operation by Owen Barfield

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Unancestral Voice (1965) is usually described as a novel, but it isn't: it is a philosophical 'dialogue', of the type pioneered ...
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Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Owen Barfield as Christian and Theologian

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Here are a couple of book chapter synopses that I have written for a proposed volume of essays on Owen Barfield: Mis/ Understanding Barf...
Monday, 15 February 2016

The name ‘Nodens’ by JRR Tolkien

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This is a rare and hard to access example of Tolkien's detailed philological reasoning, of the same kind which he applied to the Old Eng...
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Monday, 8 February 2016

Owen Barfield's linkage of the historical evolution of consciousness with personal reincarnation

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The idea of an evolution of human consciousness throughout history has been a part of spiritual thinking for more than a century - I know it...
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Monday, 11 January 2016

Tolkien's Epic Fail - the tale of Turin Turambar

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I have again been listening to The Silmarillion on audiobook - this time in the order as published, and have just finished listening to the ...
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Thursday, 10 December 2015

Tolkien's Tree - a collage

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Made from pieces of bark retrieved from the remains of 'Tolkien's Tree' - his favourite Pinus nigra found in Oxford's Bo...
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Saturday, 28 November 2015

What kind of elf would you wish to have been? What kind would you actually have been?

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There are many types of elf: http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/e/elves/elftypes.htm And many specific elves mentioned b...
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Monday, 16 November 2015

The Lord of the Rings is not a Trilogy

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Obviously it isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy  It is just a novel (usually) published in three volumes: a three volume n...
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Saturday, 7 November 2015

The nature of Charles Williams's failure to repent adultery

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“I might almost have been capable of repenting, but as it would lead nowhere, I decided not to.” (p. 247, note 784). According to Grevel Li...
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