Hello and welcome to The Weight of Glory. This is your host, Clayton Emmer.
In this podcast, we explore themes present in The Weight of Glory, an essay by C.S. Lewis.
In today's episode, my friend Kale and I reflect on paragraphs 13 through 15 of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter on hope, which asks the question: Is Christian Hope Individualistic?
This question leads to a wide-ranging conversation about the role of Christian community, and its importance in our initiation and reconciliation with God in the Church.
Our lives as Christians are intimately bound up with one another, as C.S. Lewis once noted in The Weight of Glory:
"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations."
That seems a fitting jumping-off point for continuing Benedict XVI's meditation on the character of Christian hope.
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