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The Weight of Glory

Centered around the themes of the essay The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, this podcast seeks to highlight ways in which our every encounter leads another person toward beatitude or away from it

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Season 2: Humanity and the Abolition of Man

January 10, 2022 • Clayton Emmer • Season 2 • Episode 0

The second season of this podcast will be focused on the theme of humanity: Specifically, the topic of how to ground our humanity within a truly ethical framework. It's something to which C.S. Lewis gave close attention in a book titled The Abolition of Man, first published in 1943. My friend Kale Zelden will return to discuss the book with me, as we have both appreciated the book for a long time and are eager to revisit it.

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

After Humanity by Father Michael Ward

Hello and welcome to The Weight of Glory podcast. This is your host, Clayton Emmer.

This podcast began as an exploration of The Weight of Glory, an essay by C.S. Lewis, and now is expanding to examine other works by Lewis.

I hope you had a blessed celebration of Christmas and are looking forward to the new year with a sense of hope.

Hope was the theme of the first season of this podcast.

Our second season will be focused on the theme of humanity: Specifically, the topic of how to ground our humanity within a truly ethical framework. It's something to which C.S. Lewis gave close attention in a book titled The Abolition of Man, first published in 1943. My friend Kale Zelden will return to discuss the book with me, as we have both appreciated the book for a long time and are eager to revisit it.

To prepare for the conversation, we are both reading After Humanity, a recently published guide to The Abolition of Man by Father Michael Ward. I expect our conversation will jump back and forth between the text of C.S. Lewis and the commentary by Father Ward. A link to both books is available in the show notes for today's episode.

I hope that our next episode will drop during the first week of February. In the meantime, please consider picking up a copy of The Abolition of Man and join us in our exploration of a text that is widely considered to be one of the most challenging, and most rewarding, of the writings of C.S. Lewis.

Until then, be well and God bless.