Owen Barfield - Man and Meaning

A documentary on Owen Barfield (1898-1997). Owen Barfield was a Christian philosopher educated at Oxford, where he met his good friend C.S. Lewis in 1919. Barfield was instrumental in converting C.S. Lewis to theism during the early period of their friendship. A member of the Inklings, Barfield's thinking informed the writings of C.S. Lewis and . Tolkien, among others. His abiding interest was in the history of language, through which he investigated the evolution of consciousness.