This week marks the first meeting of the Socratic Club at Oxford (January 26, 1942).

From Oxford University’s website today: “The Socratic Club is one of Oxford’s foremost non-sports clubs. Oxford Pastorate member and club founder Stella Adwinkle stated that its purpose would be to provide ‘an open forum for the discussion of the intellectual difficulties connected with religion and with Christianity in particular’ (Socratic Digest, first issue). Its first president was none other than C. S. Lewis! The subject of the first meeting (held in 1942) was, Can Science Render Religion Unnecessary? Other subjects have been: Did the Resurrection Happen? (1947) and Theology and Verification (1950). The original club disbanded in 1972, but new Socratic Clubs have since been formed on the campuses of many American universities.

Here too is a link to the late Lewis scholar Chris Mitchell’s article on the Socratic Society, a point he researched much about.