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Forthcoming Major Inkling Biography: 42% Off on Amazon

Forthcoming Major Inkling Biography: 42% Off on Amazon

Last updated on: May 30, 2015 at 3:25 pm by Artur Rosman

Forthcoming Major Inkling Biography: 42% Off on Amazon 2015-05-30T15:25:08-07:00 Artur Rosman

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I’ll be honest with you. I’m not a fan of C.S. Lewis. He is immensely overexposed and it drives me nuts.

But I generally love the other Inklings, especially the nonfiction of Charles Williams (The Descent of the Dove and He Came Down from Heaven). Barfield’s Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry is an unjustly forgotten major philosophico-theological tour de force.

You know what? There’s a nearly 700 page biography of the Inklings coming out on the 2nd of June.

The book is available for a whopping 42% off on Amazon for a limited time. That’s $15 off. Nab it while you can. Their sales can sometimes end within the course of a day.

The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings is written by Carol Zaleski and her husband Phillip. Their groundbreaking comparative study of prayer is one of my TOP10 theology books of the last 10 years. I also highly recommend Carol’s writings on contemporary imaginings of the afterlife such as Life of the World to Come.

Here’s what The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams promises to offer:

C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis’s Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles in woods and fields; gave one another companionship and criticism; and, in the process, rewrote the cultural history of modern times.

In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings’ lives and works. The result is an extraordinary account of the ideas, affections and vexations that drove the group’s most significant members. C. S. Lewis accepts Jesus Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother’s motorcycle, maps the medieval and Renaissance mind, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. J.R.R. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into gripping story in The Lord of the Rings, while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating, for family and friends, the Catholic teachings at the heart of his vision. Owen Barfield, a philosopher for whom language is the key to all mysteries, becomes Lewis’s favorite sparring partner, and, for a time, Saul Bellow’s chosen guru. And Charles Williams, poet, author of “supernatural shockers,” and strange acolyte of romantic love, turns his everyday life into a mystical pageant.

Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized reality, wartime writers who believed in hope, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century’s darkest years-and did so in dazzling style.

I will interview Carol Zaleski for this blog. Do let me know if you’d like to steal it for your print or online publication. I’m willing to consider it.

Before I go here is a Carol Zaleski lecture on the afterlife in Christian thought:

Do take a look at the TOP10 list of theology books of the last 10 years (that I’ve read).

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