S3E3 "Is Theology Poetry?" with Dr. Jerry Root (Part 1)

Exploring C. S. Lewis' 1944 essay "Is Theology Poetry?" where he defends the Christian belief against the accusation that we believe it merely because it is imaginatively appealing. There may often be aesthetic enjoyment of the truths of Christianity; it may be poetic, narrative, mythic, and metaphoric at times. And these are all valid ways of coming to know truth, but they not the only reasons we have to believe Christian claims are true.

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