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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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Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
What was the influence of nineteenth century Romanticism on C.S. Lewis?
Brent talks with Jeffrey Barbeau about his new book from IVP America called ‘The Last Romantic – C.S. Lewis, English Literature and Modern Theology’.
Jeffrey is professor of theology at Wheaton College. A theologian, literary critic, and historian, he is the author of numerous monographs, anthologies and edited books.
- (0:45) What changed Jeffrey’s view of Lewis?
- (2:35) Lewis’s marginalia;
- (4:00) The role of the subjective in Lewis;
- (4:50) ‘Mere Christianity’ and personal experience;
- (6:10) Theologians and philosophers who inspired Lewis;
- (7:55) Lewis – the last Romantic? How British Romanticism affected him;
- (9:55) Lewis’s spiritual autobiography and the Romantics;
- (11:00) Lewis and Methodism;
- (12:35) Coleridge and Lewis’s conversion;
- (14:45) Lewis and Nature;
- (16:20) Romantic dream states;
- (18:30) ‘Transposition’ and Coleridge;
- (19:15) Lewis and symbol. The wardrobe!
- (22:30) A new Lewis poem.
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