Why Can't You Fix Yourself? | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

👉 Check out the newsletter: https://bit.ly/3X8yTFJ 👉 Get all show notes and links at https://www.thechristianskeptic.org This week, we sail east through The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, an often overlooked book in the series, and the one where the villain isn't "out there", but inside the characters themselves. We dig into Eustace's un-dragoning as one of the clearest picture of grace in the series, why the transformation has to hurt, Reepicheep as Lewis's "argument from desire", and more. Let's get to it. In this episode: (00:00) Can you fix yourself? (01:01) Why Dawn Treader gets underrated (05:15) The book with no villain (07:21) The "un-dragoning" (12:24) More Calvinist than Lewis realized (15:39) Does grace have to be painful? (17:37) Reepicheep and the argument from desire (21:12) Longing, not fear, as the engine (23:11) "By another name" and the Emeth problem (26:17) The hiddenness of Aslan: "Courage, dear heart" (28:09) The Lamb and the Lion: supposal, not pluralism (31:19) Favorite moments and Reepicheep's exit (33:22) Looking ahead to The Silver Chair LINKS C.S. Lewis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._L... The Chronicles of Narnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chr... The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voy... The Silver Chair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sil... Plato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato J.R.R. Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R... Is God Really In Control? | The Horse and His Boy: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/i... Have We Tamed Jesus? | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/h... Doug Wilson: https://dougwils.com/ Mere Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_Ch... Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis: https://www.amazon.com/dp/019973870X *** 📺 New to The Christian Skeptic? Start Here:    • The Christian Skeptic   *** CONNECT WITH ADAM: Instagram:   / avclark   CONNECT WITH AARON: Instagram:   / fromgreytown   💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/4cYPn9k 🟢 Leave a rating on Spotify https://spoti.fi/3Tk3e2Q PODCAST LINKS: Website: https://thechristiansekptic.org Instagram:   / christianskepticpod   Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4HlSAPH... YouTube:    / @thechristianskeptic   *** WHAT IS CHRISTIAN SKEPTICISM? Christian Skepticism is a worldview that questions all doctrines, confessions, lifestyles, and practices—regardless of popularity or cultural/religious acceptance—in an effort to separate absolute truth from mere opinion, bias, or propaganda, using the Bible as the highest authority is determining these absolutes. We believe that God is not honored through falsehood, ungrounded religious dogmatism, or preferential conclusion masquerading as cosmic certainty, but is instead honored when truth is discovered, taught, and lived out. #skepticism #deconstruction #suffering #faith #belief #hope #deconversion #god #christianity #christianbelief #theology #sin #repentance #lordshipsalvation #grace #churchleadership #philosophy #worldview #athiest #agnostic #bible #biblestudy