Owen Barfield (1898-1997) had a larger influence on his friends C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien than often assumed. “The Great War,” their debates during their Oxford days about philosophy and meaning led Lewis to reconsider whether atheism worked, and he later became a Christian. Verlyn Flieger shows in her book Splintered Light some ways that … Continue reading Talking with Owen Barfield’s Grandson about the First and Last Inkling
