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Journal of Inklings Studies

The British academic journal for C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield and their circle It is fully peer-reviewed and indexed in the MLA.

THE JOURNAL OF INKLINGS STUDIES provides a forum for rigorous academic engagement with the thought of C.S. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and their intellectual and literary peers and forebears. In this way, it seeks to contribute to the reception of these thinkers in theology, philosophy, and literary studies, both in the UK and worldwide. THE JOURNAL OF INKLINGS STUDIES is a collabora

tion of the Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society, the Charles Williams Society, and the Owen Barfield Literary Estate. THE JOURNAL OF INKLINGS STUDIES appears twice annually in print and electronic formats. Subscribers have access to the full electronic archive both of JIS and of its predecessor, THE C.S. LEWIS CHRONICLE. In addition, the full archive of book reviews of both JIS and the CHRONICLE is freely accessible as a service to the growing community of Inklings readers and scholars. General Editor (and Subject Editor for C.S. Lewis): Prof. Judith Wolfe (University of St Andrews)

Managing and Reviews Editor: Dr Derek R. Keefe

Subject Editor for Charles Williams: Dr Holly Ordway (Word on Fire Institute)

Subject Editor for Owen Barfield: Prof. Jacob Sherman (California Institute of Integral Studies)

Subject Editor for J.R.R. Tolkien: Prof. Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi, Oxford)

Editorial Advisory Board
Stephen Barber (Treasurer, Charles Williams Society)
Owen A. Barfield (Executor, Owen Barfield Literary Estate)
Prof. Mark Edwards (Christ Church, Oxford)
Prof. Eric Gregory (Princeton University)
Dr Brian Horne (President, Charles Williams Society)
Dr Michael Ward (Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford)
Dr Brendan Wolfe (University of St Andrews)
Dr Suzanne M. Wolfe (Author and Editor)

03/06/2025

The JIS is delighted to announce the publication of two studies by members of our editorial board: Judith Wolfe's "The Theological Imagination" and Giuseppe Pezzini's "Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation", both published by Cambridge University Press:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/theological-imagination/41F28FB1A7782804FD05C25FB0F8036F
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/tolkien-and-the-mystery-of-literary-creation/8D349413EC68A7CB1D651BD1CC104060

People who purchase their copy of Judith's book before 30 June 2025 via www.cambridge.org/9781009519861 will receive a discuont of 30% by entering the code SST2025 at the checkout.

More information about Guiseppe's book can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezq6swzPcEM&ab_channel=CambridgeUniversityPress

08/05/2025

We are extremely proud to announce the publication of Inklings Studies Supplement No 4 "C.S. Lewis, Blurbologist" by Justin Keena.
This groundbreaking study of the blurbs that Lewis wrote for his own books and those of others is now available via our website:
https://inklings-studies.org/buy/c-s-lewis-blurbologist/
In the first three months, buyers benefit from a 15% discount (£15.30 instead of £18.00).

28/04/2025

We apologise for the long silence on this channel: There was a change in the Journal's managing editor from Derek Keefe to Norbert Feinendegen last year, and there were some technical issues with posting new content.
But now we are happy to announce that Volume 15/1 of the Journal has just been published; it contains five outstanding articles on Lewis and Tolkien and a dozen book reviews. The featured article by Patrick Timmis and the book reviews can be downloaded for free on the Journal's page at Edinburgh UP: https://euppublishing.com/toc/ink/15/1.

16/04/2024

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue (14.1) of the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Article abstracts and the full text of all book reviews and the issue’s feature article (*) are available to all at our Edinburgh University Press web page (https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ink), where subscribers can read or download the full contents of the issue.

Thank you to all our authors, contributors, and readers.

We hope that you enjoy our latest issue and welcome your comments ([email protected]).

ARTICLES
• Brian Gregor, Becoming Psyche: The Stoic Way and the Platonic Way in Till We Have Faces (*)
• Isaac Augustine Morales, OP, ‘He seems to be at the back of all the stories’: The Subtlety of Narnian Providence
• Joe Ricke, ‘Text Corruptions’ Corruption: Restoring C.S. Lewis’s Critical Satire
• Andoni Cossio, The Unpublished ‘Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg’ by C.S. Lewis: A Critical Edition

NOTES & QUERIES
• Jason Lepojärvi, C.S. Lewis on Female Scholars: A Reply to John D. Rateliff

REVIEWS
• Adam Edward Carnehl, The Artist as Divine Symbol: Chesterton’s Theological Aesthetic. Review by Brandon Schneeberger.
• Janka Kascakova and David Levente Palatinus (eds), J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Contexts, Directions, and the Legacy. Review by Łukasz Neubauer.
• David J. Kendall, Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination. Review by Sarah Moerman.
• Stuart D. Lee (ed.), A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, 2nd edn. Review by Holly Ordway.
• Landon Loftin and Max Leyf, What Barfield Thought: An Introduction to the Work of Owen Barfield. Review by Jacob Sherman.
• Holly Ordway, Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography. Review by Raymond Edwards.
• Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine (eds), The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien. Review by Giuseppe Pezzini.
• James E. Siburt, Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkien’s Middle-earth: Developing a Model for Understanding Power and Leadership. Review by Michael Thames.
• K. Alan Snyder and Jamin Metcalf, Many Times and Many Places: C.S. Lewis and the Value of History. Review by Philip Irving Mitchell.
• Hamish Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics. Review by Elena Sofia Capra.

08/01/2024

Read the Journal of Inklings Studies for free this January! https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ink

Edinburgh University Press has included the Journal of Inklings Studies in its literary studies free access campaign running this January. All content is available for free to anyone.

The free access campaign includes 25 literary studies journals. Browse them all here: https://www.euppublishing.com/literarystudies

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01/12/2023

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue (13.2) of the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Article abstracts and the full text of all book reviews and the issue’s feature article (*) are available at our Edinburgh University Press web page (https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ink), where subscribers can read or download the full contents of the issue.

Thank you to all our authors, contributors, and readers.

We hope that you enjoy our latest issue and welcome your comments ([email protected]).

ANNOUNCEMENT
• The C.S. Lewis Correspondence Project

ARTICLES
• Dennis Wilson Wise, Carved in Granite: C.S. Lewis’s Revivalism in The Nameless Isle
• Conrad van Dijk, Survival or Revival?: C.S. Lewis’s Medievalism in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Nathan Fayard, Prometheus on Perelandra: The Inversion of the Satanic Hero in C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra
• Arend Smilde, The First and Lowest Operation of Pain: C.S. Lewis and His Image of ‘God’s Megaphone’ for Human Suffering
• Sarah R.A. Waters, with A.T. Reyes, ‘De Arca Noe’: An Early Lewis-Barfield Collaboration

REVIEWS
• William Blissett, The Porpoise and the Otter: The Literary Friendship of Max Beerbohm and G. K. Chesterton. Review by Daniel Gabelman.
• Austin M. Freeman, Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth. Review by Lisa Coutras.
• Yanick Imbert, From Imagination to Faërie: Tolkien’s Thomist Fantasy. Review by Siobhan Maloney Latar.
• Don W. King, Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis. Review by Bruce R. Johnson.
• Mark McGivern, Tolkien’s Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment in Middle-Earth. Review by J.H. Taylor and Leslie A. Taylor.
• José María Miranda Boto, Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works. Review by Mary M. Keys.
• Harry Lee Poe, The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy (1945–1963). Review by Mark S.M. Scott.
• Dorothy L. Sayers, The Man Born to be King. Wade Annotated Edition. Edited by Kathryn Wehr. Review by Christine A. Colón.
• Charlie Starr, The Lion’s Country. C. S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real. With a foreword by Diana Pavlac Glyer. Review by Norbert Feinendegen.
• Jessica Hooten Wilson, Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual Practice. Review by Carla Arnell.

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