Nobody that I know of put the experience of joy profoundly analyzed

together with a defense of absolute objective outside of me ultimate truth

together like Lewis. Nobody combines the implications of this

experience of joy throughout his life with the implications of this

razor sharp logical philosophical side. with the So what is the relationship between the experience of joy and objective truth?

That's the question John Piper answers from the life of C.S CS Lewis in this episode of Light and Truth.

This talk was originally given at the Desire and God 2010 conference for pastors.

Now we make a turn.

How did this experience of joy relate to Lewis's defense of of objective absolute truth? How did the two come together?

The first thing he taught, by the way, at Oxford was philosophy.

He did his first BA in philosophy.

He did his second BA in literature.

Just taught philosophy for a year, shifted over,

and his imagination awoke.

He almost died as a philosopher.

Intellectually, mentally, imagination, but he never lost the tools of philosophy,

the tools of God.

What we see is that when Lewis saw the historical Christ and the eternal objective absolute real God as the object of his consolable longing, he knew intuitively, and then with reason, he knew if truth goes, if objective reality goes,

if the possibility of knowing goes, joy goes.

Because joy had taken him to the real,

it takes taking him to the real, objective absolute source, the original shout, it's there. All this was echo. If that goes, this is infinitely trivialized.

Christ was real, God was real, truth was real, is the way he put the connection.

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