We wrap up “Apologetics Month” today by talking to former guest of the show, Dr. Holly Ordway. For most of this month we’ve focussed on specific apologetics arguments, but today we speak more broadly about the subject of “Imaginative Apologetics”.
David had been enjoying this season of the “Red Letter Philosophy” podcast, particularly their recent episodes on Lewis, so he invited the co-hosts, Stephen and Matthew, onto a Skype Session to chat about it.
Although it didn’t originate with him, one of the arguments which C.S. Lewis is best known for is his “Trilemma”. Who is Jesus? A good teacher or something else? Apologist Jimmy Akin walks us through the various options.
My wife and I will be at the 41st Annual Chesterton Conference this July, hosting a panel with Marie’s co-host, Grace!
When Matt and David went through “Mere Christianity” in Season 1, Matt said that he struggled with “The Moral Argument for God”, so in today’s episode he sits down with apologist Trent Horn to hash it out.
Today we talk with Dr. Victor Reppert, a name intimately associated with The Argument From Reason, which Lewis puts forth most famously in his book, “Miracles”.
After reading his article about parallels between C.S. Lewis and St. Augustine, David invited philosopher and theologian Kenneth R. Samples onto the show to talk about it.
At the beginning of “Apologetics Month” we looked at science and scientism. Today with apologist Peter S. Williams we consider the related ideas of “Logical Positivism” and “Verificationism” which were popular in Lewis’ day and which are still alive and well today.
Andrew was extremely busy, so this month’s Common Room was just David and Matt. They discussed the recent Ecumenism Month this past April.
Lewis said that before he was six years old, he was “a votary of the Blue Flower”. The Blue Flower symbolized a life-long longing, “an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction”. Lewis used this idea in Mere Christianity to build The Argument From Desire, which Joe Heshmeyer discusses on today’s show as part of “Apologetics Month”.