Class 1 Slides and Answers to Some of Your Questions
I enjoyed our first class together and meeting all of you. As promised the PowerPoint Slides can be viewed by clicking on the link below. Class 1 Slides.pdf Since we didn't make it through Letters 3 & 4, I will add them to this week's adventure and we will explore all the ways Wormwood can tempt his patient in Letters 3 - 9. I am working on a Glossary of some of the more odd words and terms Lewis uses in these first letters and will post it soon. There were several good questions that have been excellent food for thought. 1. How did J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis meet? At an English faculty meeting at Oxford University. They were later founding members of The Inklings, a group of Oxford tutors and professors who met regularly to read and critique each other's books. Tolkien and Lewis were friends for over 40 years. Lewis dedicated The Screwtape Letters to Tolkien and unsuccessfully nominated Tolkien for the Nobel Prize in Lite...