num_pages: 192
description: 'Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis' is a collection of essays and lectures about the author, theologian, and literary scholar, C. S. Lewis. Barfield and Lewis were close friends for 44 years, from their Oxford days after WWI to Lewis's death in 1963. Barfield's reflections on their relationship ended only with his own passing, in his hundredth year. Barfield was instrumental in converting Lewis to theism. However, the two disagreed on many points, and it is that creative dialectic which defines and irradiates their "In an argument we always, both of us, were arguing for the truth, not for victory" (Owen Barfield). C.S. Lewis on Owen "The wisest and best of my unofficial teachers." "Barfield towers above us all." To Walter "You notice when Owen and I are talking metaphysics which you don't you don't notice the times when you and Owen are talking economics which I can't follow. Owen is the only one who is never out of his depth."
language: English
title: Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis
titlecomplete: Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis
genres: Biography, Literature, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Christian, Essays, Christianity, Religion
ratings_count: 38
publisher: Wesleyan University Press