… science vs. religion …
In an imagined encounter between Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis, two intelligent men discuss significant human issues. No sex, no violence. What a relief.
It’s September 3, 1939, Freud, 83 years old, in London having fled the Nazis in Vienna, is suffering dreadfully from the oral cancer which has dogged him since 1922, and has invited the young Lewis, a recent convert to Christian belief, to his book-lined study, not, as Lewis first assumes, to lambaste him for satirizing Freud in a recent book, but for a more touching reason. The aged psychoanalyst, in his profound devotion to science, and near death, is still seeking knowledge: specifically, he wants to understand how an intelligent man can be a Christian believer. Thus the debate between science and religion takes hold between these two, smart men.