Is there an expiry date on CS Lewis 60 years after his death? With Rev. Prof. Alister McGrath and Ruth Jackson, host of Unbelievable

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ruth Jackson hosts this special edition of Premier Unbelievable? with Oxford scholar and C. S Lewis expert Dr. Alister McGrath. Lewis - Jack to his friends - was a 20th Century British writer and lay theologian who is arguably one of the most influential voices in modern Christianity. On November 22nd 1963, Clive Staples Lewis died in Oxford, England. Ten years ago, McGrath’s definitive biography C.S.Lewis A Life - Eccentric Genius Reluctant Prophet was published giving readers a glimpse of McGrath’s extensive research and a thorough chronological examination of Lewis’ correspondence and archival materials to present a new picture of Lewis’s life. The book paints a portrait of an eccentric thinker who became a compelling, though reluctant, prophet for our times. Writing in the London Telegraph, Philip Womach described Dr. McGrath as a clear-eyed, and learned companion in exploring Lewis the man, and described his analysis of the Narnia books is illuminating. Dr. McGrath continues to share his insights on Lewis weekly in The C.S. Lewis Podcast hosted by Ruth Jackson. 60 years after his death, Ruth Jackson puts a variety of listener’s questions to Dr. McGrath including is there an expiry date on C.S. Lewis’ relevance sixty years after his death? • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:20.0	UK. Certainly Lewis, writing for example during the 1940s or very early 1950s, you know in many ways
0:29.6	echoed some of the cultural views of his day. Not always, I must make clear that he's quite
0:34.9	independent points, but certain unconscious bias, we might now say, is clearly there. But very
0:41.6	often what Lewis is doing is in effect using a
0:45.8	depiction of someone as a challenge to our conventional ways of thinking.
0:53.0	Is there anything that you would like to ask C.S. Lewis?
0:58.0	Well, let me tell you, one of my worries is this.
1:02.0	In heaven, is there going to be a cue to talk to see
1:06.2	us the line of people that's about a hundred miles long.
1:09.1	Hello and welcome to Unbelievable, the show that aims to get Christians and non-Christians
1:17.7	thinking about the topics that matter to all of us.
1:21.0	Thank you for joining us for this special webinar. I'm Ruth Jackson and today we're going to be talking about
1:26.5	CS Lewis, one of the most influential voices in modern Christianity. The 20th century British writer and lay theologian has
1:34.8	profoundly impacted Christians all around the world and brought many atheists
1:39.8	and agnostics to faith in Jesus. On November the 22nd 1963, Clive Staples Lewis,
1:46.5	Jack to his friends, died in Oxford, England. And as you're probably aware,
1:51.7	his death was somewhat overshadowed by the assassination of the US President John F. Kennedy on the exact same day.
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