Somewhere I've read that C. S. Lewis is the closest thing that Evangelical Christians have to a Saint. In the past year I've been studying an interesting person who was a very close friend of his by the name of Owen Barfield. They were so very close that Lewis mentioned Barfield in the dedication to his book,
The Allegory of Love (1936) as the 'wisest and best of my unofficial teachers'. Later Lewis dedicated the first Narnian chronicle to Lucy, Barfield's adopted daughter. A short web search can easily be found describing this,
such as here.
I first read Barfield's
Saving Appearances: A Study in Idolatry earlier in the year. It was difficult to understand. I even read it again a few months later. In order to proceed, I decided upon Re-Weaving the Rainbow: The Thought of Owen Barfield. This collection of essays has been a help. A variety of topics are discussed. Yesterday the thought below jumped out at me. It is lifted from my Kindle.
Re-Weaving the Rainbow: The Thought of Owen Barfield (David Lavery)
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Barfield doubts that he changed Lewis more than Lewis changed him. But of one thing he is certain and on this he and Lewis would be in agreement: "In our arguments we always, both of us, were arguing for truth not for victory, and arguing for truth, not for comfort."
If I understand properly, this quote originally comes from the book
"Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis".
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