Michael Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man

Episode 1260 October 11, 2019 00:18:19
Michael Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man
Intelligent Design the Future
Michael Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man

Oct 11 2019 | 00:18:19

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads the afterword to Michael Aeschliman’s newly revised and expanded The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism. As Aeschliman explains, Lewis neither deified nor defied science, but he did insist that science idolatry was the grave and present danger of our age. In this excerpt, Aeschliman, professor of Anglophone Culture at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano), focuses on Lewis’s brilliant critique of scientism in The Abolition of Man and elsewhere in his work, and on some key thinkers, past and present, who joined Lewis Read More ›

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