Feb
02
2010
John Piper, “Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul: Learning from the Mind and Heart of C. S. Lewis”
Update: Video now embedded below.
Here is the manuscript and audio of John Piper’s “Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul: Learning from the Mind and Heart of C. S. Lewis.”
Here’s the outline:
1. It Seems I Shouldn’t Find Lewis So Helpful
2. Why Lewis Is So Helpful to Me
3. C.S. Lewis’s Experience of Joy
4. C.S. Lewis’s Defense of Absolute Truth
5. Why the Flawed Lewis Is Influential for Me
6. Eight More Ways Lewis Helps Me
6.1. Liberation from False Dichotomies
6.2. Liberation from Chronological Snobbery
6.3. The Wakening of Wonder at What Is Really There
6.4. The Perils of Introspection
6.5. The Incompleteness of Duty Without Delight
6.6. The Painful Value of Self-Knowledge
6.7. Story Is Great—But Not Everything
6.8. The Glory of Simply Being Human