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Lewis, Mere Christianity</div></div></div></aside></div><div 265id=primary class=content-area><div 266id=content class=site-content style="background-color: #ffffff; color:#0a0a0a;" role=main><div 267class=container><div 268class=row><div 269class=col-md-12><article 270id=post-207 class="post-207 page type-page status-publish hentry"><header 271class=entry-header><h1 class="entry-title">Our History</h1></header><div 272class=entry-content><p>The spring of 1972 marked the very genesis of the C.S. Lewis Foundation. It was then that a small group of Christian scholars met for a weekend retreat in Connecticut convened by Dr. J. Stanley Mattson, an American social and intellectual historian, then serving on the faculty of Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.</p><p>As the participants reflected upon the relative absence of any credible Christian intellectual presence within the mainstream of contemporary higher education, as underscored by Harry Blamires (a former student of Lewisâ) in his critical assessment, The Christian Mind, they agreed to pray and work towards the future establishment of an interdisciplinary, âmere Christianâ community of higher learning that would be situated on or near a major secular college or university.</p><p>In June of 1986, it was this very vision that inspired Dr. Mattson to take leave of the University of Redlands in California, launching the C.S. Lewis Foundation for Christian Higher Education in September of that year for the purpose of achieving this objective.</p><p>One year later, following extensive travel, study, institutional visits, and interviews with many educators, both Christian and non-Christian, Dr. Mattson convened a group of Christian scholars and potential supporters at St. Andrewâs Priory in Valyermo, CA. For five days, twenty participants, including many of those involved in the initial Connecticut retreat in 1972, deliberated upon and ultimately adopted Dr. Mattsonâs report and recommendations concerning the establishment of a prototype Christian âGreat Books College,â with a school of visual and performing arts, to be named in honor of C.S. Lewis.</p><p>In 1984, wholly independent of this initiative, another group, under the leadership of Robert Cording of San Diego, formed a limited partnership, The Kilns Association, for the purpose of purchasing and restoring C.S. 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