The CS Lewis Podcast #68 The Case For Aslan: David Marshall on ‘Puddleglum’s Wager’

2022-08-22T17:00:00+01:00

‘The Case for Aslan: Evidence for Jesus in the land of Narnia’ examines how Lewis employed Christian apologetics throughout the fantasy writing of Narnia. Author David Marshall tells Justin Brierley how in The Silver Chair, Puddleglum proves himself to be a wise, if gloomy, thinker.

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