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Dr. Leslie Baynes joins Chris to talk about her new book, Between Interpretation and Imagination: C.S. Lewis and the Bible. 

Among other things, we discuss:

• Lewis' familiarity with (and attitude toward) the Bible, before and after his conversion.
• Biblical scholars (like Gore) who influenced Lewis' views of Scripture.
• Lewis and the doctrine of inerrancy
• The trouble with the liar/lunatic/Lord trilemma.
• John and the Synoptics.
• Biblical allusions in Narnia (and Lewis' other imaginative work).

Also:

• Footnotes versus endnotes!
• Epigraphs!
• Bertie Wooster!
• Evangelion and Potatoes at Beaversdam!

A big thank-you to Dr. Baynes for a great conversation. Click here to purchase her book.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Crumpets? Email me at inklingsvarietyhour@gmail.com

We'll have a few Christmas episodes (mostly rebroadcasts), but this marks the end of Season 5. We'll put a few more bonus episodes out in the next months, then pick back up in March with Season 6.

Shameless self-promotion: 

If, in the meantime, you feel starved for Pipkin-related content, you can feel free to buy the book Chris and his wife, Glencora, have written about celebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas: Twelve Tide. If you want a free, blog-based version, just go to 12tide.com, and feel free to sign up for our email list while you're at it.

Also, there's always this, from Chris' (or Dr. Pipkin's) recent King Arthur class.