S1E8 – MC B2C1 – “The Rival Conceptions Of God”

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

With Book I of "Mere Christianity" complete, we now move on to Book II! Having concluded that the Moral Law points to God, C.S. Lewis now examines the "Rival Conceptions of God".

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0:00.0	The Eagle and Child, Episode 8.
0:03.0	Mere Christianity. Book 2, Chapter 1.
0:11.8	Hello, and welcome to the Eagle and Child, the hallowed pub of the Inklings.
0:16.7	This is a podcast where each week, my friend Matt and I share a beer and discuss the writings of the author known to the world as Clive Staples Lewis, or CS Lewis, or just as Jack to his friends.
0:28.5	My name is David, and today we leave Book 1 of Mere Christianity behind and start on Book 2.
0:35.3	And sitting here on the barstool next to me at the Eagle and Child is Matt.
0:39.5	I'm excited to begin book two because as we talked about before, these build. And I think book two
0:46.7	is great. I think book three is awesome. And just book four is incredible. And so I'm excited to be
0:52.7	getting closer to book four.
0:56.1	Do you realize how many times you're excited?
0:58.2	You're always excited about what we're going to do.
0:59.5	Life is just so exciting.
1:04.5	I've also been told I use the word incredible a lot.
1:05.5	You do.
1:08.6	If people don't know, I'm the one who edits these.
1:11.8	And it's amazing when you're editing 45 minutes worth of audio, how sick you get of your own voice. But also, how you notice all the little
1:16.9	vocal quirks and language choices that people make. Yes, you use incredible a lot. Yeah, I'm hoping by
1:23.3	the end of this podcast, which is the whole reason I'm doing this, not to evangelize, not to do any
1:27.1	apologetics, but purely that I will get a deeper vocabulary.
1:31.0	Doing it with an Englishman is the way to do it.
1:32.9	That's exactly right.
1:33.7	A pinch of salt.
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