S4E41 – AH – “After Hours” with Michael Ward

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 2008, Dr. Michael Ward released "Planet Narnia", a book which caused a real stir in C.S. Lewis studies in which he offered a new lens through which to view "The Chronicles of Narnia". On today's show, in addition to his book, Dr. Ward discusses his friendship with the late Walter Hooper, as well as his involvement in honouring Lewis' life and legacy. Oh yes, and he also explains how he came to give James Bond a pair of x-ray glasses…

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0:00.0	Pints with Jack, Season 4, Episode 41.
0:04.3	After Hours with Dr. Michael Ward.
0:11.0	Welcome, everyone.
0:12.5	Pints with Jack is your weekly CS Lewis podcast, where Matt, Andrew and I break down and
0:17.1	discuss the works of C.S. Lewis.
0:19.5	This season, we are eavesdropping on the correspondence
0:22.0	of a senior demon, screw tape, as he explains how to tempt the patient, a human assigned to be tempted
0:27.1	by Scrutape'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.
0:37.1	However, today is a Thursday, meaning that it's an after-hours episode,
0:40.3	and I'll be interviewing a guest on the show today.
0:43.2	And I will be speaking today with Dr. Michael Ward.
0:46.9	Dr. Ward is going to be coming on the show again in a few months
0:49.5	when his new book on The Abolition of Man is released.
0:52.6	But in preparation for that, I wanted to spend some time
0:55.8	talking with him about all of the exciting Lewis-related activities he's been involved in thus
1:01.5	far in his career. And in case you're new to the world of Lewis, or have been living under a rock,
1:07.7	allow me to introduce him. Dr. Michael Ward is a fellow of Blackfriars Hall,
1:11.7	University Oxford, in his native England. He also works as Professor of Apologetics at
1:17.2	Houston Baptist University, Texas, and is the co-editor of the Cambridge companion to C.S. Lewis.
1:23.3	Dr. Ward is probably best known as the author of the award-winning book, Planet Narnia,
1:28.1	which became the subject of the BBC television documentary called The Narnia Code.
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