What Do You Do When God Goes Silent? | Prince Caspian

C.S. Lewis set Prince Caspian 1,300 years after the golden age of Narnia — long enough that Aslan has become a legend, the talking trees have gone silent, and the people who rule the land insist none of it was ever real. So, what do you do when the God you used to see has gone quiet, and the culture around you has decided He was never there?

In part four of our series through the Chronicles of Narnia, we dig into the most generous portrait of an honest skeptic Lewis ever wrote (Trumpkin), whether there’s room for doubt inside the church, why Lewis thought certainty could be its own kind of unbelief, and the famous scene where Lucy is told she should have followed what she saw—even when no one else could see it. Let’s get to it.

In this episode:

(00:00) Intro
(00:53) Why Prince Caspian is the most skeptical book in the series
(02:07) Chronological snobbery: does "old" mean false?
(03:24) 1,300 years later: a world that forgot Aslan
(05:00) Trumpkin, the honest skeptic
(07:18) Three kinds of faith: Trufflehunter, Nikabrik, and Trumpkin
(11:54) Why honest skeptics are taking Christianity seriously again
(13:01) The place for questions (and answers)
(16:34) How should Christians hold their certainty?
(18:38) When truth is forgotten, the culture decays
(21:13) Why did Aslan disappear? Where is God now?
(26:01) Faith means believing without sight
(27:14) Lucy, and faith as perception
(31:38) The marriage of faith and reason
(34:53) Are myths "half-glimpses" of truth?
(37:30) Reepicheep's tail and generational faithfulness
(40:33) Determinism and responsibility

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
• Joe Rogan: https://www.joerogan.com/
• Jordan Peterson: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/
• Martin Luther: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
• William Tyndale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale
• John Wycliffe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe
• Jim Jones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
• Doug Wilson: https://dougwils.com/

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