S4E53 – AH – “After Hours” with Jake Grefenstette

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Today we continue "Barfield Month" by talking to Jake Grefensette about the literature and poetry of Owen Barfield.

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0:00.0	Pints with Jack, Season 4, Episode 53.
0:04.0	After Hours with Jake Grefonstadt.
0:11.4	Welcome, everyone.
0:12.6	Pints with Jack is your weekly CS-Lews podcast, where Matt and I break down and discuss
0:16.6	the works of C.S. Lewis.
0:18.2	This season, we're eavesdropping on the correspondence of a senior demon screw tape, as he explains how to tempt the depatient. A human assigned to be tempted
0:25.1	by screwtap's nephew, Wormwood. Each week we'll be considering a different letter, untwisting
0:29.5	screwtap's hellish logic, and forming a battle plan for our own spiritual lives. However, today is
0:34.7	a Thursday, which means it's an after-hours episode, and we're currently in
0:38.3	Barfield Month, which means today we're talking to another Owen Barfield scholar, Jake Greshonstadt.
0:44.2	Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jake Gretchenstet has studied theology, philosophy and literature
0:48.8	at the universities of Notre Dame, Chicago, Beijing, Oxford, and now Cambridge, where he is
0:54.0	working towards his PhD as a member of King's College Chicago, Beijing, Oxford and now Cambridge, where he is working towards his PhD
0:55.1	as a member of King's College. At Cambridge, Jake studies the legacy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1:00.5	in 20th century thinkers like Owen Barfield, working at the intersection of theology and literature.
1:06.4	Jake is also interested in the broader legacy of the romantic tradition in Chinese poets like,
1:10.6	and I'm going to mispronounce all of these, uh, Shuji-mo, haji, is also interested in the broader legacy of the romantic tradition in Chinese poets like,
1:16.1	and I'm going to mispronounce all of these, uh, Shu Ximou, haji and Xi Shang.
1:21.6	Outside of his thesis, Jake is involved in the study and practice of film, even holding a special thanks film credit on the extended cut of the Tree of Life. During his free time in Cambridge,
1:28.5	he shoots and develops expired film stocks with his wife, Christina. Nearly all photographic efforts spotlight their dog,
1:34.2	Frodo Waggons. Jake Grefenstead, welcome to Pites for Jack. Hi, David. Thank you so much for having me.
1:41.5	So how did I do with the pronunciation of the names of those Chinese poets?
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