S2E29 – AH – Dr. David Clark

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Probably the most useful book I read during Season 2 of Pints With Jack was C.S. Lewis Goes To Heaven by David Clark. In today's episode I interviewed Dr. Clark to discuss his book and wrap up our discussion of The Great Divorce. 01:51 – Introducing Dr. Clark 08:34 – Did the book take long to write? 09:14 – What’s the main point of Lewis' book? 10:31 – What is the structure of your book? 11:54 – What were Lewis' sources? 14:52 – The Sociology 21:01 – The Geography 25:24 – The Theology 30:32 – How should readers read your book in relation to Lewis’? 34:13 – Who drew the illustrations in your book?

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0:00.0	Pints with Jack, season two, episode 29.
0:04.1	After Hours with Dr. David Clark.
0:11.9	Hello and welcome to Pints with Jack.
0:14.9	Two weeks ago, I was speaking with Dale Alquist, the president of the Chesterton Society,
0:19.9	and today is another interview,
0:21.8	another after-hours session where I'm going to be speaking with Dr. David Clark about his book,
0:27.4	C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven, a reader's guide to the Great Divorce.
0:32.7	I first came across Dr. Clark's book towards the end of our study of The Great Divorce.
0:38.5	You may recall that in one of the later chapters, Lewis's guide, George MacDonald, talks
0:43.2	about a man named Sir Archibald.
0:46.8	Now, Sir Archibald was a man who was obsessed with survival, but when he arrived in the
0:51.3	foothills of heaven, he found that he was at a complete loss,
0:55.0	and so he returned to the grey town. And as I was reading that chapter in preparation for our
1:01.2	episode, there seemed to be just so many little details mentioned about Sir Archbold that I became
1:07.0	convinced that Lewis had to have someone in mind when he wrote about that character.
1:13.1	And as I was researching this, I reached out to William Flaherty, the chat behind the Essential
1:18.1	CS Lewis website and the All About Jack podcast.
1:22.5	He, in turn, pointed me to Dr. Clark's book, where he lays out a very compelling case that Sir Archibald's
1:29.1	real name was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes Mysteries. Naturally, Matt and I then
1:37.0	both bought copies of Dr. Clark's book, and we found out really helpful in preparing for the few
1:41.5	remaining episodes we had left of our discussion. So I really wanted to
1:45.6	invite Dr. Clark onto the show to discuss both his book and Lewis. Dr. David Clark received his
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