The Eagle and Child, episode 24.

Mere Christianity, Book 3, Chapter 11. Faith.

Hello, and welcome to the Eagle and Child, the hallow pub of the Inklings.

This is a podcast where each week, my friend Matt and I share a beer, and we discuss the writings of the authorklings. This is a podcast where each week my friend Matt and I share a beer

and we discuss the writings of the author known to the world as Clive Staples Lewis,

or C.S. Lewis, or just as Jack to his friends. My name is David and last week we were

looking at the virtue of charity. And today we're going to look at another theological virtue with someone in whom I have

the greatest faith, Matt. I do have a lot of experience at faith personally because every single

week when we record these, I have to have faith that you won't make me sound incredibly stupid.

I do have a folder on my Google Drive of all of the bloopers that we have.

There's some bad ones. I still don't know if that David Copperfield one's going to make it in or not,

is it? We'll have to find out. Oh, that was just a rough. It wasn't one of my finer moments. You have a lot of

power over me. It feels pretty good, doesn't it? With great power comes great responsibility.

Yeah, you've wielded it well so far.

Friends, in this chapter, we're going to be talking about faith, but Lewis actually splits

this into two chapters.

And so in this first chapter, we're going to look at what does faith mean in a more traditional

sense, the way we probably

think about it, and also why can we consider a virtue?

And then next week, we'll dive into faith from a deeper, potentially more abstract sense.

So we'll just jump into the quote.

If we wish to be rational, not now and then, but constantly, we must pray for the gift of faith,

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