{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"3. Shelf Life - Abolition of Man","description":"Walter Hooper, the executor of C.S. Lewis\u2019 literary estate maintained that The Aboli- tion of Man was \u201can all but indispensable intro- duction to the entire corpus of Lewisiana.\u201d Lewis himself revealed that it was \u201calmost my favorite among my books.\u201d Indeed, he referred to it again and again in virtually all of his later works\u2014he says That Hideous Strength is \u201ca novelization of its essential thesis\u201d and the first four chapters of Mere Christianity \u201coperate in effect, as a simpli- fied version or beginners\u2019 guide to Abolition.\u201d But, the average Evangelical reader today would be justifiably baffled by this notion: the book, despite its many pithy epigrammatic quotes, seems to be arcanely philosophical and morosely pessi- mistic. ","author_name":"The StandFast Cast","author_url":"http:\/\/standfast.libysn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/24218736\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/135041412"}