On Myth as a Vehicle for Truth A Dialogues Conversation with Holly Ordway & Louis Markos
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
How often do you use your imagination? In our newest program, Socrates Dialogues, authors and professors Louis Markos and Holly Ordway discuss the enduring friendship between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and their most famous works, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of The Rings.
They discuss how the two balanced their disagreements while maintaining respect and a close bond, the mythical worlds they created, the fight between good and evil, and ultimately, the importance of imagination through reason
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