S4E20 – AH – “After Hours” with Terry Lindvall

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Following on from Tuesday's episode where I discussed the different kinds of laughter described by Screwtape, I was joined by author Terry Lindvall to speak further about the subject.

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0:00.0	Pints with Jack, season four, episode 20.
0:03.4	After Hours with Terry Linville.
0:11.6	Welcome, everyone.
0:13.1	Pints with Jack is your weekly CS-Lews podcast, where Matt, Andrew and I break down and discuss
0:17.6	the works of C.S. Louis.
0:19.2	This season, we're eavesdropping on the correspondence
0:21.4	of a senior demon, Screwtape, as he explains how to tempt the patient, a human assigned to be
0:26.5	tempted by Scrutate's nephew, Wormwood. Each week, we'll be considering a different letter,
0:31.6	untwisting Screwtape's hellish logic and forming a battle plan for our own spiritual lives.
0:36.9	However, today is a Thursday and is therefore an after-hours episode.
0:41.7	This episode follows nicely on from Tuesday's episode with the guys from The Catholic Man Show,
0:46.4	where we discuss Letter 11 of the Scrutate letters, which relates entirely to the subject of laughter.
0:53.6	And today I'm interviewing the author of Surprised by Laughter, Terry Linville.
0:59.1	Terry Linville is the elder twin born in Basel, Switzerland, and wandered about the world with
1:03.9	his family as his father was an army chaplain.
1:07.0	Educated at Vanguard University in literature and biology, he stumbled into Fuller Theological Seminary, and then fell into the University of Southern California, studying theology and communication respectively.
1:17.6	He has taught at the Zuzza Pacific University, Wheaton College, Regent University, Duke Divinity School, the College of William and Mary, and is presently ensconced in the C.S. Lewis Chair of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan University.
1:32.3	He is the author of a number of books on cinema, as well as God Mocks, a history of religious satire from the Hebrew prophets of Stephen Colbert,
1:40.1	and Surprised by Laughter, the comic world of C.S. Lewis. He has been married to Karen for over 35
1:46.8	years and they have two children, Chris, a comedy writer in Los Angeles, and Caroline, a seventh-grade
1:51.8	English teacher in Virginia Beach. His wife likes walks on the beach, a fine wine, and churches.
1:58.6	He follows her obediently. He aspires to be one of the last patriarchs of this generation,
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