If a live dinosaur dragged its slow length into the laboratory, would we not look back as we fled?

Speaking not only for myself, but for all other old Western men whom you may meet, I would say,

use your specimens while you can. There are not going to be many more dinosaurs.

This is Pines for Jack, season 5, episode 55, the medieval mind of C.S. Louis, after hours with Dr. Jason M. Baxter.

Good morning, everyone. Pines with Jack is your favorite weekly C.S. Lewis podcast, where

Andrew, Matt and I break down and discuss the works

of C.S. Lewis. My name is David, and this season we worked our way through Lewis's book,

The Four Loves. We then had ecumenism month and apologetics month, and then we read our Narnian

Chronicle for the season The Horse and His Boy. But for the rest of July, we're going to be

interviewing a number of authors about books which they've written, and today I'm speaking to Dr. Jason Baxter.

Dr. Baxter has taught at Wyoming Catholic College for about 11 years.

His primary research interests include medieval and Renaissance ideas of beauty, the long-lived legacy of Platonic thought, and the poetry of Dante.

He's also interested in medieval mysticism,

humanism, the relationship between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and increasingly,

a relationship between science and the arts. He's written five books, including an introduction

to Christian mysticism, a beginner's guide to Dante's Divine Comedy, Falling Inward, Humanities in

the Age of Technology, and the

book which we'll be discussing today, The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis, how great books shaped a great

mind. Dr. Baxter, welcome to Pines for Jack. Thanks. So happy to be here. How are you doing today?

Hi, we're doing well. It's finally turned spring in Wyoming, so it's one of those sorts of days that if you're unhappy, there's something seriously wrong with you.

We have something very similar here in Wisconsin at the moment. Everybody's in such a good mood because they're feeling the temperatures start to creep back up again.

I know. Spring. Chaucer understood it in the medieval's, but spring is a special thing.

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