We hope those who have got a copy of the new edition of The Silver Trumpet in the two months have enjoyed reading it, or are enjoying it. This post is a brief one, by way of information, of news after the new edition’s publication. Online Event Whether you have read The Silver Trumpet or not, you may be interested in an online event being held next month by the Inklings Folk Fellowship, details as follows. Topic: Owen Barfield‘s The Silver Trumpet (in Honor of its Republication), with L...| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
The new edition of The Silver Trumpet has now been published! It is a delight for the Barfield Press to publish this tale, the first work of fantasy by the group of writers that came to be known as the Inklings, on the centenary of its first publication in 1925. The blurb is as follows: The Silver Trumpet was the first children’s fantasy story to be published by one of the Inklings. Its early success with the children of Barfield’s friend and fellow Inkling, J.R.R. The post The new editio...| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
Owen Barfield, whom C. S. Lewis described archetypally as his “Second Friend” – “the man who disagrees with you about everything […] not so much the alter ego as the antiself” – on a number of occasions expressed his agreement with the argument of The Abolition of Man, and his admiration of the book. For example, describing various means by which one can become aware of the presuppositions of one’s thoughts, Barfield once wrote: One, of which the best example I know is C. The ...| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
The Owen Barfield in Russian Club is now ten years old. From the very beginning, we called it a club, although it could be called a “circle” or a “society”, or have no special designation at all, like the Inklings, who are sometimes named an “informal literary group”, though none of them ever thought of ... The Owen Barfield in Russian Club| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
The following contains some thoughts inspired by a very striking passage in Barfield’s late essay “Meaning, Revelation and Tradition in Language and Religion.” In reflecting on the Incarnation, he considers what it would mean for a divine-human person to speak. He suggests that—while an ordinary human child, in beginning to speak, is bound by the ... Reflections on a Passage from “Meaning, Revelation and Tradition in Language and Religion”| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
Landon Loftin: Hello Spencer. Congratulations on your newest book: Light of the Mind, Light of the World. Can you say something about the book’s main thesis? Spencer Klavan: Thanks very much indeed, Landon. Light of the Mind, Light of the World is a new history of science from a religious perspective. My hope is to ... “Barfield’s understanding of language was one I had never encountered before”: an interview with Spencer Klavan| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
In 1978 while in a bookstore looking through a table of books on sale for 99 cents each, I saw R.J. Reilly’s Romantic Religion. Being a 19 year old and madly in love, how could I not pick it up and take a look? I noticed that the book was about C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, ... Dancing with Owen Barfield: a visit to Orchard View recalled after forty years| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
The following article was first printed in the 2005 edition of The Golden Blade, an annual anthroposophical publication which survived until 2009. It was written as the draft of a lecture ultimately given in the English Auditorium at the Goetheanum on Thursday 7th August 2003. As Simon Blaxland de-Lange wrote in a footnote to its ... Owen Barfield: Harbinger of the 21st Century| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
The Barfield Press has been very glad to receive a goodly number of inquiries about when a new edition of Owen Barfield’s first book, The Silver Trumpet, a story written originally for children, will be published. This is still more the case since we had been hopeful of publishing it in the earlier part of ... New Barfield Press edition of The Silver Trumpet forthcoming in 2025| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
In September 2023 I attended the first conference on Owen Barfield held at Cambridge University. That weekend, Cambridge basked in the golden embrace of a radiant sun, the city awash in warmth and light. This year’s conference, titled Plotinus and Barfield: Emanation and Evolution, took place on 14th September, and the atmosphere in Cambridge was no different. As I wandered through the narrow streets toward the Divinity Faculty, I crossed over quaint bridges, where punting boats lay moored,...| The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
