Listen "Cultural Observances: C. S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces (Part 3)"
Episode Synopsis
Today's episode picks up where we left off a couple weeks ago, debating Orual's and Psyche's relative moral and epistemic culpability for their religious disagreement. Mason figures out that I've been using the text as a "stimulus" for a philosophical "community of inquiry" style discussion while he prefers a more internal, literary, and hermaneutic approach: we may have been talking past each other. We also see that "Till We Have Faces" is Lewis' most successful attempt to retell a myth (the others being his prep school recasting of the Norse God Loki as a tragic hero and his partial translation of the Aeneid) and to call out fallen human rebelliousness against God and love.