What was the name of the Oxford society whose weekly meetings C.S. Lewis chaired?

The Oxford society whose weekly meetings C.S. Lewis chaired was the Socratic Club. It was founded in 1942 as a forum for discussing Christianity and the rational basis of religious belief.

The club met at Oxford University during a period when debates about faith, reason, science, and philosophy attracted wide attention. Lewis chaired its meetings and helped make them known for direct, structured discussion rather than for one-sided religious lectures.

Speakers and participants included Christians, skeptics, and other thinkers. The format allowed arguments for and against Christianity to be examined in public conversation. Lewis’s role in the club complemented his popular apologetic writing, but the Socratic Club was a discussion society, not a book or a church.

The name is sometimes confused with The Inklings, Lewis’s informal literary circle. The Inklings focused on reading and discussing creative work, whereas the Socratic Club centered on philosophical and religious debate.