S2E27 – AH – Dale Ahlquist

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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t has been my desire for a while to introduce the listeners to other members of the Inklings, as well as authors who greatly influenced Lewis. Today we look at G.K. Chesterton and our special guest who will be introducing us to this great man is renowned Chesterton scholar and champion, Dale Ahlquist.

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0:00.0	Pints with Jack, Season 2, Episode 27.
0:04.2	After Hours with Dale Alquist.
0:10.9	Hello, and welcome to Pints with Jack.
0:13.9	So, we've now finished this season's book, The Great Divorce,
0:17.1	and last week Matt and I discussed Prince Caspian,
0:19.9	this season's book from The Chronicles of Narnia.
0:22.7	For the remaining weeks this season, we've got some really great guests on the show, and this week is going to be no exception.
0:30.0	But first, I think it would probably help to relay a bit of backstory.
0:34.6	As listeners will know, the focus on this podcast is C.S. Lewis, or Jack, to his friends.
0:40.4	However, a few months ago, Matt and I were talking, and I mentioned that I really wanted to start
0:44.6	introducing the listeners to the rest of the inklings, as well as those writers who exercised
0:50.1	a profound influence on Lewis.
0:53.2	And around the same time, in our San CS Lois book club, we were reading
0:57.9	Surprise by Joy, which is Jack's spiritual autobiography. And in it, there was one name which appeared
1:04.4	about 11 times, and that's G.K. Chesterton, the Prince of Paradox and the Apostle of Common Sense.
1:13.1	Now, while he was still an atheist, Jack read a collection of Cheston's essays, and much to his
1:17.2	surprise, Cheston made an immediate conquest of him. In fact, Lewis commented that liking an
1:23.1	author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. But falling in love he did.
1:30.2	Lewis loved Chesterton's humour, his good sense, his charm and his goodness. Lewis regarded him as the
1:35.7	most sensible man alive, apart from, of course, his Christianity, because at this point, Lewis was still
1:40.5	an atheist. And in particular, Lewis notes that in reading Chesterton's The Everlasting
1:45.4	Man, he saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that finally made sense to him.
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