Walter Hooper - Part 4 (Encore)
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Eric's interview with Walter Hooper, the literary assistant to C.S. Lewis, continues in this special Socrates in the City broadcast recorded in London. (Encore Presentation)
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| 0:00.0 | And that was fun. |
| 0:30.0 | state building, not even in New York. I'm across the pond. No, not in New Jersey. |
| 0:35.6 | In England, yes, I'm in Oxford, England right now doing a special series of |
| 0:40.6 | Socrates in the City events that Socrates in the City. And I wanted to share them with you, |
| 0:46.8 | my radio audience. So now let's listen in to the Socrates in the City event I did yesterday, |
| 0:54.4 | or it may have been the day before I'm getting confused with the jet lag. But very recently, |
| 0:59.6 | I hope you enjoy it, pip pip cheerio, and so on and so forth. Thank you. |
| 1:07.5 | Welcome to Socrates in the City, Oxford edition. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. |
| 1:16.6 | I am, thank you. I cannot tell you how excited I am about this because for me, |
| 1:24.5 | this is a dream come true. For years, I have wanted to interview Walter Hooper. And it's taken me |
| 1:31.6 | this long. I apologize Walter, but we're finally here in Oxford to do this. Walter Hooper in case |
| 1:37.2 | you don't know who he is was in 1963, the secretary to CS Lewis, spent time living with Lewis, |
| 1:46.3 | working with him, and soon thereafter when Lewis died on the same day, that the same hour |
| 1:53.6 | that President Kennedy died, Walter Hooper took on the huge immeasurable task of doing all that |
| 2:03.6 | needed to be done to sort of secure his literary legacy to republish works that had fallen out of |
| 2:09.7 | print, and really to edit his work for decades, it's been now. It's just gigantic. It's a lifelong |
| 2:17.6 | devotion. It seems to me a calling. And for me, it's a tremendous privilege to get this time with |
| 2:24.5 | Walter Hooper. So please, Socrates in the City, welcome for Walter Hooper. |
| 2:34.8 | Yeah, if I'm pushed, I would describe myself as a mere Christian. That's my |
| 2:47.5 | denomination. And I think Lewis helped people in some ways avoid the straight jacket of a |
| 2:58.0 | particular denomination. And just to say that I'm with Lewis, I'm with historical Christianity, |
| 3:03.9 | I'm with traditional Christianity, I think that that's something he may have intended to some |
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