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The Counsel of Trent

#418 – C.S. Lewis and Counterfeit Christs

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent appears on the Pints with Jack podcast to analyze C.S. Lewis’s famous “trilemma argument” for the divinity of Christ.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:12.3

I'm your host, Catelyn Hansen's Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:16.0

One of the Christian apologists who greatly influenced me coming to the Christian faith

0:20.3

was CS Lewis.

0:21.3

I mean, he's probably affected tens of millions of people with his books like Mirror Christianity,

0:28.0

a grief observed, surprised by joy.

0:30.4

And honestly, he's more famous in popular culture for the Chronicles of Narnia.

0:34.8

My son Matthew, actually, he just finished the audiobook series of the entire Chronicles

0:39.8

of Narnia.

0:40.8

My favorite is that the last book in the series, The Last Battle, is narrated by Patrick

0:45.1

Stewart.

0:46.1

It is just tremendous.

0:47.1

And when it got to the very end where it's like this is the end of all of it, Matthew

0:52.7

got really sad.

0:53.7

He's like, this is the end.

0:55.3

But the point at the end of the last battle is about the kids going to heaven.

0:58.5

And so it's not really the end.

1:00.1

It's the beginning of something great and glorious.

1:02.3

And it provided a good opportunity to talk to him about heaven.

1:05.5

So I'm just so grateful for the work of CS Lewis.

1:08.3

And that's why I was grateful, my friend David Bates invited me on his podcast, Pints

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