James Como
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
James Como, a founding member of the New York C.S. Lewis Society, shares his extensive study not only of Lewis' work in general, but also of his favorite story, "Perelandra."
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxus show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. |
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| 0:09.7 | That's legacy p.m. Investments.com. Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Metaxus. |
| 0:28.2 | Folks, have I got a treat for you? |
| 0:31.0 | Some of you know how much I love C.S. Lewis. |
| 0:35.7 | And if I had to pick one book, it would be Perilandra. Not hugely known. |
| 0:44.6 | He wrote a, they often call it the Space Trilogy. It's really a misnomer. But it's, I think of it as Narnia for adults. |
| 0:54.9 | It's just genius, genius, genius level of writing and ideas. |
| 0:59.8 | It's amazing. |
| 1:00.6 | And the centerpiece is this book called Perilandra. |
| 1:04.9 | We'll be talking about it because I have in the studio, I have James Como, who's written a book called Mystical |
| 1:14.9 | Paralandra, James Como, a dear old friend, many, many years. Welcome to the program again. |
| 1:22.5 | Thank you, Eric. You, now, you're tough to sum up. Let's try. Let's try. You've written many, |
| 1:39.3 | many books. You're a noted authority on C.S. Lewis. And I was trying to remember how we first came across each other. It's literally 20-something years ago. |
| 1:44.2 | It is. We had dinner once at Rossini's down the block from the Church of Our Savior. |
| 1:44.9 | I remember. |
| 1:45.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:50.1 | Well, I used to live on 38th Street, on East 38th Street. |
| 1:50.8 | There it is. But I'm just trying to remember how we were connected. Maybe it was through Thomas Howard. |
| 1:54.5 | Very likely, through the late, great Thomas Howard. |
| 1:57.9 | I dedicate my new book. It's called Is Atheism Dead to Tom Howard, whom I loved. |
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