Reefed joins us again.

He is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and author of many books, including

Making Sense of Suffering and Christianity for Modern Pagans.

He has a new book entitled God on Stage, 15 plays that ask the big questions.

That's our topic today.

Welcome, Professor Kreeft.

Well, thank you for having me.

First, let's do a metaphysical question.

How is one to put an infinite, omniscient, transcendent being, if we want to call being, God into a drama on a stage?

Isn't that impossible?

That's like saying, how in the world are you going to put Shakespeare into Hamlet? He's there already. He's omnipidate. I'm my present.

Very good. Very good. We have 15 plays here, mostly stage plays. Anything you want to say about your principle of selection?

No, I don't have a principle of selection. I do it inductively and intuitively.

Here are 15 of my favorite plays that say something important about God and the difference God makes,

whether overtly or covertly. And then I organized them into an outline.

Anyone who has written a long paper or essay knows that the outline usually comes at the end

rather than the beginning. Here are things worth saying, and now you organize them.

Very good. Very good. Your first play is actually a radio play under Milkwood by the poet

Dylan Thomas. You say that the real protagonist in that play is the setting of the action.

Where does this take place? It takes place in a little Welsh countryside town inhabited by eccentric people.

And it's not so much the place itself, but Thomas' poetic way of describing both the place and the characters.

So this is showcasing words.

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