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Jason Baxter on Loving Modernity as a Medievalist
"The air of Narnia had been working upon him … and all his old battles came back to him, and his arms and fingers remembered their old skill. He was King Edmund once more."
In this week's wide-ranging discussion, Dr. Jason Baxter talks about fellow Medievalist C. S. Lewis's ideas of story and history—and how those ideas matter for the education and formation of a thoroughly modern people. What can today's "classical revival movements" learn from Lewis?
Chapters:
3:56 C. S. Lewis's library
6:31 His theory of stories: mining ancient jewels
14:49 His theory of history: a post-Christian world…
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