S2E22 – AH – Louis Markos

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Today I speak to Dr. Louis Markos, Professor in English at Houston Baptist University and author of the book Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition. In this work, Professor Markos devotes a chapter to The Great Divorce, as well as the book to which Lewis was responding, Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Click on the episode title for the Show Notes!

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0:00.0	Pints with Jack, Season 2, Episode 22.
0:04.0	After Hours with Lewis Marcos.
0:11.0	Hello and welcome to Pints with Jack.
0:15.0	Last week, Matt and I discussed the final chapter of The Great Divorce,
0:19.0	and next week the two of us are going to offer a
0:21.9	retrospective of this entire season. But today is an after-hours episode with Professor
0:28.0	Louis Marcos. So back in the early part of 2018, our San Diego CS-Lewish Reading Group
0:36.0	was working through The Four Loves.
0:39.3	And in an attempt to sound intelligent during our discussions, I searched YouTube for lectures about the book.
0:45.3	And it was then that I encountered a force of nature in a tuxedo.
0:50.3	It was a lecture given by today's guest at Houston Baptist University.
0:54.9	It was a phenomenal lecture, and on the strength of that, I bought an audio lecture series on Lewis, which he had produced.
1:02.6	And I'm going to include links to all of these things in the show notes.
1:06.4	I then reached out to him and asked for some constructive criticism about our podcast, and he gave
1:11.6	some really helpful feedback.
1:13.8	So, who is this man?
1:16.4	He is the professor in English at Houston Baptist University, where he holds the Robert H. Ray
1:21.7	Chair in Humanities.
1:23.4	He is an authority on CS Lewis and has written an obscene number of books on Lewis, Tolkien, and ancient literature.
1:31.1	So, Dr. Lewis Marcos, welcome to Pines for Jack.
1:34.5	It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
1:37.2	Thank you for coming and talking to us.
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