The CS Lewis Podcast #28 The Silver Chair

2021-11-08T16:44:00+00:00

Professor Alister McGrath speaks to Ruth Jackson about one of the darkest books in the Narnia series – The Silver Chair. They look at how we can know that Christianity is true and unpack the relevance of Lewis’ countercultural ideas in today’s skeptical culture.

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