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Orts 44, 1997, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held at St Stephen's Church, Westbourne Park Road, London W2 on Friday October 31st at 7.15pm. for 7.30. St Stephen's is near the eastern end of Westbourne Park Road, a few hundred yards from Royal Oak Stn., which is on the Hammersmith and City Line. Turn left out of the station and Westbourne Park Road is the second turning on the right.

Orts 45, 1997, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

Various unexpected events have delayed the final planning of this Conference. As a consequence it has not yet been possible to circulate full details. However the Conference is still planned to take place at Westminster College, Oxford from June 26th-28th.

Orts 42, 1997, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

The extent to which email and the internet, in the past year, have supplanted the traditional forms of communication at a distance, is almost beyond belief. Few of us had realised how our specialist interests can blossom when a form of world-wide communication becomes available which reproduces the situation in a neighbourhood special-interest club, where members communicate informally with one another several times a week. The MacDonald Society's web site has not yet started to flourish, but that is only because J. J. Flynn who manages it, has been seriously ill. We wish him a speedy recovery. There is, however …

Orts 43, 1997, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

We have attempted to catch up on our publishing schedules. This issue is only one month late and number 44 should be on time. The brief period since Orts 42 however has meant that we have received few contributions, and the issue lacks the 'lighter' material necessary to balance two serious reviews. Please be sure to send us any material you have for the next issue.

Till We Have Faces: A Restoration Of Perspective On The Condition Of Man, Joan Alexander

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Man’s relationship to a Divine Being is one of the persisting concerns of literature, with modern leanings contending that God does not exist or does not involve himself with man. C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces concerns itself with this approach to God, proposing that it might not be God who is the problem but man’s perception of him.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Myth Made Truth: Origins Of The Chronicles Of Narnia, Mark Bane

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

The Chronicles of Narnia are some of C.S. Lewis’s most beloved books, but how did they come about and what was their purpose? By tracing his life, interests, and faith one can see how these elements shaped Lewis’s narrative of Narnia.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.