February, 2025

“Barfield’s understanding of language was one I had never encountered before”: an interview with Spencer Klavan

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 change not so much what specialists know about science, but how the average person thinks about science. I think we’ve gotten this badly wrong: most people walk around with an operating theory that the world works like a Lego set.


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Dancing with Owen Barfield: a visit to Orchard View recalled after forty years

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, J.R.R. Tolkien—all of whom I had heard of—and a writer unknown to me named Owen Barfield. My friend David Werther, an admirer of and writer about C.S.


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