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The Other Inklings, with Connor Salter

The Other Inklings, with Connor Salter

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Friend of the show Connor Salter joins me to talk about his new book, The Other Inklings, a book of interviews with current Inklings scholars about C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and other figures connected with their circle(s). Among other things, we discuss:

  • 3:44 About the book
  • 4:39 How the book came to be
  • 9:58 Why these scholars & figures?
  • 14:28 Tolkien's English Catholicism
  • 17:20 George MacDonald & Chesterton as influences
  • 21:29 Why so much focus on William Lindsay Gresham?
  • 24:59 Gresham, Joy Davidman & Dianetics
  • 28:20 Surprising finds: Charles Williams & moral failure
  • 30:06 Separating the art from the artist
  • 35:47 Most formative scholar: Joe Ricke
  • 37:32 Owen Barfield & anthroposophy
  • 46:01 Barfield's "evolution of consciousness"
  • 48:55 The Victorian Occult Revival
  • 53:47 Outro & book plug
  • 56:08 Deleted Scenes

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