In an excellent essay at Albion Awakening; John Fitzgerald argues that the Inklings, especially JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, can be seen as 'heralds' of a potentially dawning Christian Renaissance - men who kept alive in The West, through declining decades, a thread containing both traditional Christianity and pagan romanticism and spontaneity:
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/the-inklings-heralds-of-coming.html
