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God‘s story is the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But it‘s also humanity‘s story, the story of a world fallen and blown apart and of a world reshaped and restored. It‘s the beginning of all beginnings and the end of all ends. Join Brent Siddall and the Rev Ian ‘Reido‘ Reid as they explore God, time, salvation and the cosmos. Explore the stories of Western culture as they pivot and interact with the main narrative of salvation history.
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Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
What shaped the mind of C.S. Lewis? Many of us know Lewis only through his ‘Narnia’ Chronicles but we might not know his work as a professor of medieval literature.
Brent talks with Jason Baxter, the associate professor of fine arts and humanities at Wyoming Catholic College.
Jason’s book ‘The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis – How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind’ is published by IVP America.
- (0:50) Lewis – a man of the medieval age?
- (2:19) C.S. Lewis and ‘climate’ in literature;
- (5:10) The medieval view of the planets. How the planets provide the ‘weather’ for the Narnia books;
- (7:10) The planets and music. The world as a symphony;
- (8:33) The role of the musician in the Middle Ages;
- (11:54) The medieval view of the universe and Lewis’s fiction;
- (14:19) Lewis and Modernism;
- (17:00) Lewis and a ‘long’ Middle Ages;
- (20:00) Lewis and worldview;
- (27:40) Lewis and the way ancient writers ‘foresaw’ Christ.
Links mentioned in this episode:
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
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