Well, Bill, your book, God and Abstract Objects, addresses this topic, and you also contributed

to a book beyond the control of God, edited by Paul Gould.

So we're looking at an article by Dr. Gould, the Christian Platonism of C.S. Lewis.

So Bill, can you tell us about that with C.S. Lewis, a Christian Platonist?

Well, Kevin, this really depends on what you mean by Christian Platonism.

I personally think the expression is something of an oxymoron.

I think Platonism and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible with each other, and therefore you've

got to redefine your terms in radical ways if you're going to talk about a Christian Platonist.

I'm inclined to say about Christian Platonism.

What the Pope said about Islam and Christianity a few years ago, he said, the only good things

come from Christianity, not from the other component.

And I would say that about Christian Platonism too.

And he good in it is from Christianity, not from Platonism.

Paul begins the article, let's begin with Platonism.

Perhaps the central notion of Platonism is the two tiered nature of reality.

There's the realm of eternal and visible and immutable forms are being.

And there is the temporal, visible, and changing world of becoming.

It is Platonism's adherence to a transcendent realm beyond the world of our sensory experience

that has been particularly attractive to Christians.

With this brief sketch of Platonism, I want to describe the mood, method, and doctrines of Christian Platonism.

What do you think about that definition so far, Bill?

What's important to understand, Kevin, is that Platonism's transcendent realm beyond our sensory experience

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