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Podcast: Religion on the Mind
Episode: C. S. Lewis's "The Great Divorce" (Part 4) (#381)
Description: This is it — the finale of our four-part series on C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, and Kristen Tideman and I go out with a bang.
We work through chapters 10-14, where Lewis's portrait of a controlling wife raises questions for us both. We also get into the lizard-turned-stallion scene, Lewis's theology of maternal love (I push back pretty hard), the soul-building argument for suffering, and a Sarah Smith moment I found a little too neat.
After the Patreon break, Kristen and I dig into the deeper theological mechanics Lewis is proposing about hell, free wi...