You guys, I cannot believe what I'm about to say. I literally never thought this would happen on this

podcast. On this episode, I am going to say something bad about CS Lewis.

So if this podcast just cuts off in the middle of the episode and you're wondering where I've gone it's actually

because a giant chasm has opened up directly beneath my chair and I've fallen

into a pit of everlasting doom for having spoken ill of St. Louis. No, actually I'm sure that if if Louis gets

mad at me he will forgive me because he's undoubtedly in heaven enjoying

eternal bliss and in fact I'm not even really going to say something bad about Lewis per se, so please

don't send a thunderbolt to smite me down.

I've been on record for, like since the beginning of this podcast loving the apologist

yes Lewis I think he's the greatest intellectual of the 20th century I stand by that

but even Homer nods as the ancients said even the greatest have some slip-ups from time to time and and really what I'm talking

about here is less about Lewis's work and more about what has happened as a result of

one of Lewis's books and I'm talking here about the four loves which is a book that in itself I

really really like and have enjoyed ever since I read it. So I guess what I'm saying is not something bad about that book

specifically but about what that book did to the conversation about love in

the Bible because that's what we've now gotten to in our series about the virtues if you've been with me for

a while for the past month or so you know we've been doing a big grand tour through the virtues

first through the cardinal virtues what it means to be excellent ethically in soul in the ways

that human beings can using their own unaided reason and without revelation and

now we've moved over.

We've transitioned into the theological virtues,

which are those virtues that are meant to complete the soul

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