This week, we sail east through The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, an often overlooked book in the series, and the one where the villain isn’t “out there”, but inside the characters themselves. We dig into Eustace’s un-dragoning as one of the clearest picture of grace in the series, why the transformation has to hurt, Reepicheep as Lewis’s “argument from desire”, and more. Let’s get to it.

In this episode:

(00:00) Can you fix yourself?
(01:01) Why Dawn Treader gets underrated
(05:15) The book with no villain
(07:21) The “un-dragoning”
(12:24) More Calvinist than Lewis realized
(15:39) Does grace have to be painful?
(17:37) Reepicheep and the argument from desire
(21:12) Longing, not fear, as the engine
(23:11) “By another name” and the Emeth problem
(26:17) The hiddenness of Aslan: “Courage, dear heart”
(28:09) The Lamb and the Lion: supposal, not pluralism
(31:19) Favorite moments and Reepicheep’s exit
(33:22) Looking ahead to The Silver Chair

Links

C.S. Lewis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader
The Silver Chair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Chair
Plato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
J.R.R. Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien
Is God Really In Control? | The Horse and His Boy: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/is-god-really-in-control-the-horse-and-his-boy/
Have We Tamed Jesus? | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/have-we-tamed-jesus/
Doug Wilson: https://dougwils.com/
Mere Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_Christianity
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis: https://www.amazon.com/dp/019973870X

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