PWJ: S1E23 – MC B3C10 – “Hope”
Last week we looked at “charity”, and today we look at another of the theological virtues, hope. Out of this entire book, this is probably my favourite chapter…
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Episode 23: “Hope” (Download)
— Show Notes —
• My outline for today’s chapter is available here. Unfortunately, there isn’t a C.S. Lewis Doodle for it.
• Matt and I chatted about how great it would be to hang out with C.S. Lewis in Heaven.
• We discussed preliminary plants for a potential podcast field trip to Oxford, England, in order to share a pint in the actually “Eagle and Child”.
• I shamelessly promoted my talk What does it mean to be a restless pilgrim? where I quote from this chapter of Mere Christianity extensively.
• Quote-of-the-week:
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to reach the mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from, my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing, the longing for home? For indeed, it now feels not like going, but like going back.“
– C.S. Lewis, Till we have faces
• Drink-of-the-week: Gold Coast Ale
• Hope is a virtue, like prudence, and fortitude. It’s one of the three theological virtues: Faith, Hope & Love/Charity.
• Hope is not just wishful thinking.
• Matt referred to this classic piece of St. Paul:
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. Convinced of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith, so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.
– Philippians 1:21-26
I mentioned that I have recorded a video Series on the Epistle to the Philippians.
• The best commentary on the Book of Revelation is Coming Soon by Dr. Michael Barber.