S1E3 – MC B1C1 – “The Law of Human Nature”

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we begin Book I of "Mere Christianity", which is entitled "Right and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe". In this book, C.S. Lewis builds an argument for the existence of God based upon the idea that there is a Moral Law.

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0:00.0	The Eagle and Child, Episode 3.
0:03.7	Mere Christianity, book one, chapter one.
0:10.8	Hello, and welcome to the Eagle and Child, the hallowed pub of the Inklings.
0:15.9	This is a podcast where each week, my friend Matt and I share a beer,
0:19.2	and 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.
0:28.6	My name is David, and today in this podcast we're going to be beginning Chapter 1 of Mere Christianity.
0:34.4	And as I look at this well-known work of Christian apologetics, I'm going to be joined by
0:37.9	my fellow inkling wannabe and C.S. Lewis enthusiast, Matt. Thank you, David. And I wanted to start
0:44.4	by saying thank you to the listeners so far from the first three episodes. We've had wonderful feedback.
0:48.8	And so we appreciate you guys listening. And as always, I'm incredibly grateful and excited to be here
0:54.0	and excited to dive into the first chapter. And I'm also very grateful, but I'm incredibly grateful and excited to be here and excited to dive into the first
0:55.7	chapter. And I'm also very grateful, but I would be even more grateful if people would rate us on
1:01.0	iTunes and write us some reviews. As we said in the earlier episodes, there aren't really
1:05.7	CS-Lews podcasts out there. So we want to raise this podcast up so more people get to read C.S. Lewis and come to
1:12.5	experience the gold mine of this book. So that would be great. If you take issue with anything
1:18.8	that we say here, please feel free to reach out to us on Twitter. Our handle is Pints with Jack.
1:24.0	As we've mentioned in previous episodes, we're not CS Lewis experts, we're just enthusiasts.
1:29.3	And before we actually get started today, I have to issue a correction. I can't believe that it's episode three and I'm already having to issue a correction. I'm sure this is how I'm going to grow in humility.
1:43.3	Anyway, last weekend I went to the Catholic Arts Conference,
1:47.0	and a papal document called Ut Unum Sint was mentioned quite a lot.
1:52.9	And I found that this, in fact, was the original source of the quotation that I gave in the previous episode.
2:00.2	I said that Raniero Cantcantala Mesa says that
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