CS Lewis, Tolkien and Barfield: How the Inklings made sense of faith - Mark Vernon and Malcolm Guite (+ Michael Ward and Daniel Ray)

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🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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The Inklings were a group of academics, authors and poets who met regularly in Oxford to discuss each other’s work and included Christian intellectuals such as CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and Owen Barfield. Mark Vernon's new book ‘A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the last Inkling and the evolution of consciousness’ explores his own search for Christian faith in light of the theology of members of The Inklings, especially Owen Barfield. Poet-theologian Malcolm Guite engages with Mark on his view of Jesus as the epicentre of a new phase of consciousness, and the future of Christian faith. In the final part of the show Justin is joined by Daniel Ray and Michael Ward to talk about ‘The Story of the Cosmos: How the heavens declare the glory of God’. Watch the discussion at the Unbelievable? YouTube channel https://youtu.be/2LIg0Xh3Sbk For Unbelievable? Live in LA on 11 & 12 Oct: www.unbelievable.live For Mark Vernon: https://www.markvernon.com/books For Malcolm Guite: https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com For The Story of the Cosmos: https://thestoryofthecosmos.com/ Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Unbelievable-the-Book For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	Good afternoon, welcome back to the show, I'm Justin Briley, this is unbelievable, bringing
0:11.3	you conversations that matter every week here on Premiere Christian Radio and all over
0:15.7	the place via our podcast and really excited about today's show as we talk about CS Lewis,
0:21.3	J.R.R. Tolkien and Owen Barfield among other things.
0:24.4	Been producing my guest, Mark Vernon and Mark and Guy, shortly.
0:27.3	So a bit of a CS Lewis Fest today on the show because later on in the program, I've also
0:31.4	got a little interview lined up with Michael Ward, also a well-known CS Lewis scholar,
0:36.5	and a Christian Apologist Daniel Ray on their new project, The Story of the Cosmos.
0:41.0	So look out for that later on in today's program.
0:44.1	There's loads more stuff from the unbelievable website if you want to go there and check
0:47.8	out our social media, links to the YouTube channel, the app, the newsletter, articles,
0:52.7	videos, further episodes of the show, and of course the book telling the story of the
0:56.7	show and why I'm still a Christian after 10 years of talking with Atheus.
1:00.7	We've recently reduced that in price and you can only get signed copies if you get them
1:04.9	from us.
1:05.9	So do head over to the unbelievable show page, premierChristianradio.com, forward slash
1:10.4	unbelievable.
1:11.4	Today's show is also being released on video over at the YouTube channel as well.
1:16.1	Of course last year was a big year for us, the big conversation season one, some brilliant
1:20.6	thinkers across the Atheist and Christian community joining me for those big video debates.
1:26.2	And season two is on its way very soon this September.
1:29.2	We're going to be releasing some more amazing conversations.
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