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  Hugo Dyson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dyson, was an English academic and a member of the Inklings literary group.
Dyson taught English at the University of Reading from 1924 until obtaining a fellowship at Merton College, Oxford in 1945.
Dyson was noted for the rarity of his published writings but the high quality and voluminous quantity of his lectures and general conversation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Dyson   (193 words)

  
 The Cumberland River Lamp Post - An Appreciation Of C.S. Lewis
Lewis described him to Arthur Greeves as one of his friends of the second class, on a the level with his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien (TST, 372, 421).
Lewis expressed his appreciation for Dyson's help in the preface of The Allegory of Love, and dedicated Rehabilitations to him.
with an introduction and notes by H.V.D. Dyson.
www.crlamppost.org /dyson.htm   (174 words)

  
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According to Dyson, through belief the believer was put at peace and freed from his sins.
Three days after the late night walk with Tolkien and Dyson, Lewis was sitting in the sidecar of his brother’s motorcycle en route to the Whipsnade, the local zoo.
If Tolkien and Dyson had not taken the time to share their belief with Lewis, if they had not shown him the true Christ, many would not have returned or found the faith in the 20th century.
entropyhouse.com /baillie/candme/essays/fellowshipoflight.html   (788 words)

  
 titusonenine » Blog Archive » Notable and Quotable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He had no understanding of the sacramental system and could not see the relevance of concepts similar to those found in pagan mythologies–for instance, the ideas of sacrifice, propitiation, the shedding of blood, communion, and redemption.
What changed his thinking more then anything else was conversation he had on September 19, 1931, with J. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson, his guests at dinner that evening at Magdalen College.
Dyson continued talking with Jack, striding up and down the arcades of New buildings.
titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /?p=831   (627 words)

  
 Narnia on Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He and Hugo Dyson had organised an informal dining club with four of their pupils, Philip Stibbe, Tom Stock, Peter Bayley, and Derek Brewer, and the club happened to meet a couple of days after the Socratic duel.
Dyson said—very well—that now he had lost everything and had come to the foot of the Cross—spoken with great sympathy." Brewer adds that Lewis's imagery was "all of the fog of war, the retreat of infantry thrown back under heavy attack."
Lewis had learnt his lesson: for after this he wrote no further books of Christian apologetics for ten years, apart from a collection of sermons; and when he did publish another apologetic work, Reflections on the Psalms, it was notably quieter in tone and did not attempt any further intellectual proofs of theism or Christianity.
www.narniaontour.com /articles/takinglewisseriously.htm   (3671 words)

  
 Lewis and Tolkein: 'Inklings' of Christianity
In September 1931, an increasingly questioning Lewis - along with Tolkien, and fellow 'Inklings' member and Anglican Hugo Dyson - spent a whole night pacing Addison's Walk on the Magdalen Campus, debating the truth of religion.
It was a concept that Lewis both loved and accepted readily from mythology, but had rejected in religion from an early age.
Dyson and Tolkien argued that Lewis was holding the scripture to a higher standard of truth than he did for any other form of expression.
www.thenarniaacademy.org /article_inklings.htm   (645 words)

  
 Inklings - Tolkien Gateway
The Inklings was a literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England.
Its members, mostly academics at the university, included J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Adam Fox, Hugo Dyson, Robert Havard, Nevill Coghill, Charles Leslie Wrenn, Roger Lancelyn Green, James Dundas-Grant, John Wain, R.
The founders of this group are commonly known by the nick-names Jack, Tollers, and Hugo.
tolkiengateway.net /wiki/Inklings   (849 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Now what Dyson and Tolkien showed me was this: that if I met the idea of sacrifice in a Pagan story I didn’t mind it at all: again, that if I met the idea of a god sacrificing himself to himself (cf.
Despite all the definitions and clarifications of Romanticism in the added Preface, despite the importance of Sweet Desire in drawing John from his home and to salvation, Lewis’s emphasis in his first effort to communicate publicly about his conversion is on the journey to the acceptance of Theism, a largely intellectual process.
The conversation with Tolkien and Dyson, important as it was to Lewis’s conversion, did not resolve the tension between reason and imagination.
www.hope.edu /academic/english/schakel/tillwehavefaces/chapter11.html   (6321 words)

  
 Raritan Valley Road Runners
Age groups: Hugo Vadillo, Rolondo Castro and Pat Cosgrove 1st; Kathy Rocker, Doug Brown and Joann Coffee 2nd; Jill Knorr and Patricia O'Hanlon 3rd!
6/18/04 Mary Foley is 2nd and Hugo Vadillo is 3rd overall at June Moon 5K!
6/6/04 Hugo Vadillo and Jill Knorr are 3rd overall at Roselle 5K!
www.rvrr.org /archives2004.htm   (3156 words)

  
 Winter 2002 Online Response: Middle Earth
In September 1931, Lewis, Tolkien and their mutual friend Hugo Dyson walked together and discussed the nature and purpose of myth.
Lewis explained that he felt the power of myths, but that they were ultimately "lies and therefore worthless, even though breathed through silver." Tolkien argued that we have come from God, and the myths woven by us, though they contain error, reflect a splintered fragment of God's eternal truth.
Building on this philosophy of myth, Tolkien and Dyson went on to express their belief that the story of Christ was simply a true myth, a myth that really happened.
www.spu.edu /response/winter2k2/middle_earth.html   (2292 words)

  
 September 22: C.S. Lewis converted riding to a zoo
He was converted to full Christianity on this day, September 22, 1931 following a long talk he'd had the 19th with two Christian friends: J. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson.
Tolkien, who was soon to create the most imitated fantasy of our century, The Lord of the Rings, argued that even some myth can originate in God, preserving truth, however distorted.
Dyson and Lewis walked and talked some more.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/09/daily-09-22-2001.shtml   (644 words)

  
 C.S. LEWIS - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
It was here that he met the group that would later form the Inklings—J.R.R. Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams, Warren Hamilton Lewis, Robert Havard, Owen Barfield, and Neville Coghill as well as others who floated in and out over the years.
Lewis credits a conversation with Tolkien and Dyson (and a motorcycle ride with his brother to the zoo) with his return to Christianity and his acceptance that Jesus Christ was the divine son of God.
This began his career of writing theological pieces including the popular Screwtape Letters, which were written in serial form for a magazine and all the proceeds given to charity.
www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/lewisc/lewis.htm   (401 words)

  
 2-C.S. Lewis: The Man and His Myths / Albert James Dager
Tolkien, a Roman Catholic, considered himself a Christian and argued for the truth of Jesus Christ being the Son of God.
With the aid of a mutual friend, Hugo Dyson (Lecturer in English Literature at Reading University), Tolkien worked on Lewis's "theism" to convince him of the meaning of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, and the role of Christ in Christianity.
To prove their point, Tolkien and Dyson argued that there is an inherent truth of mythology: all pagan religions point in the direction of God.
www.professionalserve.com /articles/ChroniclesLewis2.html   (998 words)

  
 RVRR Running News Archives
Age group results: Roger Price, Pat Cosgrove and Imme Dyson 1st; Sergio Cano and Patricia O'Hanlon 2nd; Myrna Rosal and Mary Foley 3rd!
10/23/04 Imme Dyson 1st and Jeff Knoll 3rd in age groups at Hamilton Half-Marathon!
Age groups: Mary Foley, Joann Coffee and Imme Dyson 1st; Dana Gross and Dorothy Little 2nd; Ken Vercammen 3rd!
www.rvrr.org /newsarchives.html   (1123 words)

  
 FaithStreams
The fall term of 1933 at Oxford found Lewis regularly meeting with a group of his friends in his rooms at Magdalen College or in the back room of the nearby pub The Eagle and Child (fondly known as The Bird and Baby).
Dubbed The Inklings, the group included J.R.R. Tolkien, Warnie, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams, Dr. Robert Havard, Owen Barfield and Weville Coghill.
Colin Duriez, author of "The C.S. Lewis Encyclopedia'" said The Inklings served as a buffer against modernism.
www.faithstreams.com /topics/cs-lewis/cs-lewis-the-inklings.html   (531 words)

  
 Dummies::Exploring the Spiritual Odyssey of C.S. Lewis
In addition, Lewis found that the friends to whom he was becoming the closest and most attached to, such as Arthur Greeves, Nevill Coghill, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Hugo Dyson, were Christian.
During this period of religious reflection, Lewis also became aware that the Christian view of the world was logical and reasonable after all.
On September 19, 1931, Jack had dinner with friends J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson at Magdalen College, Oxford.
www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-3204.html   (1211 words)

  
 The Lord of the Rings - Wikiquote
I think that many confuse 'applicability' with 'allegory'; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
Hugo Dyson, Tolkien's friend and fellow academic, during a reading of Lord of the Rings at Oxford; reportedly attributed by Tolkien's son Christopher [1], or similarly as "Oh fuck, not another elf" by A.
The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings   (731 words)

  
 sciforums.com - Does Myth disprove CHRISTIANITY?
Lewis describes a pivotal point in his understanding of myth while talking to J.R.R. Tolkien (author of the “Lord of the Rings”, “Silmarillion”) and Hugo Dyson on a September evening.
"...now what Dyson and Tolkien showed me was this: that if I met the idea of sacrifice in a Pagan story I didn’t mind it at all; again, that if I met the idea of a god sacrificing himself to himself...
I liked it very much and was mysteriously moved by it: again, that the idea of the dying and reviving god (Balder, Adonis, Bacchus) similarly moved me provided I met it anywhere except in the Gospels.
www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=3845   (5026 words)

  
 Stories Behind the Movies, Shadowlands: The Story of C.S. Lewis, Chapter 5
Although the Oxford tutor had found his way back to God, he was not a Christian.
In September 1931, Jack and his close friends J.R.R. Tolkien (a devout Catholic) and Hugo Dyson took a long walk among the turning leaves in Oxford.
As they strolled along Addison’s Walk the two friends tried to convince him to reconsider his position on Christianity.
www.lawbuzz.com /movies/shadow_lands/shadow_lands_ch5.htm   (178 words)

  
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In this introduction to Narnia the lion Aslan (Lion of Judah/Jesus) willingly dies sacrificially upon the stone table (Christ's crucifixion on Calvary/Stone Tablets of the Mosaic Law) at the hands of the White Witch (Lucifer) to redeem the life of traitor Edmund.
Lewis himself acknowledges the influence of his friends J.R.R. Tolkien (of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit fame) and Hugo Dyson, while on a trip to the Whipsnade Zoo in September 1931, as "the immediate human causes of my conversion" (letter to long-time and closest friend, Arthur Greeves).
This was in stark contrast to his earlier worldview: "The early loss of my mother, great unhappiness at school, and the shadow of the last war [he fought in and was wounded in World War I] and presently the experience of it, had given me a very pessimistic view of existence.
www.craiggiven.com /lpcs.htm   (749 words)

  
 Theology blends with fantasy in Lewis' 'Narnia'
After the death of his mother when he was 10, his father sent him off to boarding schools where personal intellectual growth was emphasized over spirituality.
But the day after a long talk with his friends J. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson, Lewis fully converted to Christianity.
As he recorded in Surprised by Joy, his conversion came from the joy in the story of Jesus that broke through Lewis’ own intellectual obstacles.
www.dioceseofnashville.com /article_narnia.htm   (1004 words)

  
 Inkling-The Inklings
The Inklings was a literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford.
Among its members, mostly academics at the university, were J. Tolkien, C. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Hugo Dyson, Robert Havard, Nevill Coghill, John Wain, and Warren "Warnie" Lewis (C. Lewis's older brother).
It met from the middle of the 1930s until the late 1940s.
www.inklingbooks.com /theinklings/theinklings.html   (406 words)

  
 The Inklings: The Other Oxford Movement
Lewis invited Tolkien and Hugo Dyson, a teacher at Reading University, to dine.
Lewis's brother, Warnie, attended the occasional meeting when he was home from the Army, and they were often joined by Barfield and Hugo Dyson.
Then on 4 February 1933 Lewis wrote excitedly to Arthur Greeves: 'Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children's story which Tolkien has just written.' It was The Hobbit (1937), the first work by an Inkling to become a classic.
www.catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0142.html   (1697 words)

  
 Addison's Walk (Mappa Mundi)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
I felt even more connected to it when Jack told me that it was on this very path that he converted to Christianity just a couple years ago.
It was a result of a long, natural progression; however, the last straw was a conversation he had with Hugo Dyson and J.R.R. Tolkein.
Because of my own faith, I know that where one is when he or she comes to know Christ is a very important place in his or her heart."
www.cwrl.utexas.edu:7000 /407   (372 words)

  
 C. S. Lewis: The Reluctant Convert
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was to take a decisive role in the next step of Lewis' conversion.
On a fall evening in 1931, Lewis had dinner with fellow professors Tolkien and Hugo Dyson.
They walked through the college's park, talking, until the early hours of the morning.
catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0251.html   (1541 words)

  
 Son of Adam · C.S. Lewis Fanlisting
Though he was raised Christian, he gave up that faith in his teen years, retaining his Atheist mindset until becoming a Theist in 1929.
Everything came full circle when, after having discussions on Christianity with J.R.R. Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, and his brother Warnie, C.S. Lewis became a Christian in 1931.
Jack is best remembered for his Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy books that, though they are called children's books, appeal to all ages.
www.mourning-love.net /cslewis/about.php   (231 words)

  
 Chapel Service Sermon
Perhaps the story of his changed mind can shed light on the divide between faith and skepticism.
Lewis changed his mind in part because of a talk he had with JRR Tolkein and Hugo Dyson as they walked a park path outside of Magdalen College.
Lewis and Tolkein were bound together by a shared love of myth.
www.dartmouth.edu /~tucker/rsl/sermons/2004-01-27.html   (1156 words)

  
 The Fellowship Of The ‘Tolkienophobes’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Confronting Tolkien’s mediocre, myth-obsessed mind, Hugo Dyson, a member of Tolkien’s inner circle, let rip with a spontaneous slip of the tongue.
As writer Kevin Michael Grace related, Dyson “once reacted to a Tolkien reading with, ‘Oh no! Not another f—ing elf!’ …
Recent ferment makes the nation’s entertainment choices even more alarming than I had previously thought.
www.freemarketnews.com /Analysis/56/3509/2006-01-23.asp?wid=56&nid=3509   (628 words)

  
 Touchstone Archives: What About Charles Williams?
Everyone who knows anything about these gentlemen beyond Middle-earth and Narnia knows that they met regularly at The Bird and Baby to drink beer, smoke, talk, and read their “work in progress” to each other, and that Charles Williams was perhaps the most animated (or agitated) one of the group.
Others were there—Hugo Dyson, Lord David Cecil, Dr. Havard, and so on—but the Three were the core of the thing.
Nevertheless, Williams’s name is strictly a name for insiders, so to speak.
www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=17-10-033-f   (3111 words)

  
 My Poetry (RC) - CGR Community
I think they are nice and everything, but it doesn't do much for me. It's one thing if I'm reading Shakespeare or Poe...
This is different from the others rhythm wise.
This is not a bad thing, but most of the poems posted on CGR usually stray away from the idea that most people have of poetry, meaning it contains a rhyme scheme and meter and such, and they generally are easy to understand.
www.christianguitar.org /forums/showthread.php?t=95418   (1148 words)

  
 Duncan Entertainment Group --- C.S. Lewis Profile
His story is well documented in his autobiography, Surprised by Joy.
It was on a rainy night in 1931 that Lewis walked in the rain outside of Magdalen College with his friends, J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson.
During a discussion that lasted several hours, Lewis' friends convinced him that while there were many links in various forms of the world's great mythologies, Christianity was "the true myth." From that night forward, Lewis believed in Christianity.
www.duncanentertainment.com /lewis_profile.php   (846 words)

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