Part Two of The Problem of Evil series with my brother Josh introduces C.S. Lewis' book The Problem of Pain, and follows along with Lewis' case in chapter one for how we even have a "problem" of pain or evil in the first place. If you'd like, you can go back and listen to the first episode in this series; and the next episode on chapter two of The Problem of Pain should be posted soon!

episode notes/links

• The Wade Center Podcast - episodes "Love, Pain, Grief, and Joy: Vol. 2, The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis" and "Love, Pain, Grief, and Joy: Vol. 3, The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis"
• "C.S. Lewis on War and Peace," by David C. Downing (C.S. Lewis Institute article)
• C.S. Lewis' books Surprised by Joy and Miracles
• G.K. Chesterton quote referenced by Josh: "I have remarked that the materialist, like the madman, is in prison; in the prison of one thought. These people seemed to think it singularly inspiring to keep on saying that the prison was very large. The size of this scientific universe gave one no novelty, no relief. The cosmos went on for ever, but not in its wildest constellation could there be anything really interesting; anything, for instance, such as forgiveness or free will. The grandeur or infinity of the secret of its cosmos added nothing to it. It was like telling a prisoner in Reading gaol that he would be glad to hear that the gaol now covered half the county. The warder would have nothing to show the man except more and more long corridors of stone lit by ghastly lights and empty of all that is human. So these expanders of the universe had nothing to show us except more and more infinite corridors of space lit by ghastly suns and empty of all that is divine." (from Orthodoxy, ch. 4; 1908)