Eric Metaxas

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2,196 appearances 21 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Sep

Eric Metaxas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Lewis into the idea of Jesus rising from the grave as being the one true myth. voice-verified

So there's all this Christian history there voice-verified

But I think what's interesting to me, it's always countercultural, because let's face it, C.S. voice-verified

Lewis and Tolkien and their Christianity, they weren't exactly warmly welcomed in the faculty clubs at Oxford. voice-verified

And when you look at the Wesleys and George Whitefield, they were mocked by the students of the day. voice-verified

So it's just kind of fascinating to me that you have, you know, the question is, what Oxford are you talking about? voice-verified

It's like saying, what America are you talking about? voice-verified

Are you talking about the America of Joe Biden's? voice-verified

Well, I mean, the funny thing is, is that, yeah, this for them was utterly extracurricular. voice-verified

In other words, the academics at a place like Oxford, and even today it's the same, but they sneered at the idea. voice-verified

You're going to write popular books. voice-verified

You're going to write books like the Screwtape Letters, and you're going to write stuff that average people read. voice-verified

We're academics. voice-verified

We're way above that. voice-verified

We voice-verified

sneer at that. voice-verified

And we sneer at the idea of an Oxford professor writing for the masses. voice-verified

They sneered at it. voice-verified

So, of course, Tolkien and Lewis and Williams and the others, they were too wise and too good to buy into that garbage. voice-verified

They knew that the greatest stories are the kind of are like the books that they wrote, like The Lord of the Rings and like the voice-verified

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