PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 88
Diana Pavlov Glyer, author of The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, on how the members of The Inklings (C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, etc.) influenced each other’s thinking and writing
Michael J. Lewis, author of “Body and Soul,” on what the Body Worlds exhibits assembled by Gunther von Hagens reveal about our attitudes toward human nature (Archive Feature available)
Steve Talbott, author of Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines, on how the aims of education are distracted by technology
Darryl Tippens, author of That’s Why We Sing: Reclaiming the Wonder of Congregational Singing, on why we sing
Everett Ferguson, author of Backgrounds of Early Christianity, on the place of music in the Early Church
Alexander Lingas on the tradition of music in the Eastern churches
Calvin Stapert, author of A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church, on the nature of meaning in music
Bonus: Diana Pavlac Glyer on Owen Barfield, a friend of C. S. Lewis’s, whose work is largely unknown since his writing tends to be technical and philosophical
Bonus: Michael J. Lewis on the changing view of the human body present in the history of art
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