The Cynic, The Witch and the Wardrobe
15/01/06
As a young boy, Jack loved "dressed up animals," falling in love with Beatrix Potter's books, he often wrote and illustrated his own animal stories. He even created his own magical world "Boxen;" inhabited and run by animals. His childhood play (and Anglican view) served him well. Later in life Clive Staples (Jack to his friends) Lewis would complete the most eminent of children's story series "The Chronicles of Narnia." But there's much more to Lewis than being known as a children's author...
Arguably the most influential theologian of the past century, the great Anglican lion C.S. Lewis came to the Church rather late, at the age of 33; "I came into Christianity kicking and screaming. The most reluctant convert of all time." He'd been a good atheist for most of his early life but was brought to the Church "not by mythology, but the facts of the matter." One way he saw it was that people are willing to accept Jesus Christ as a great moral teacher, but Christ also claimed divinity, so 1: Jesus was telling falsehoods and knew it, and so he was a liar. Or 2: Jesus was telling falsehoods but believed he was telling the truth, and so he was insane. Or 3: Jesus was telling the truth, and so he was divine. Lewis maintained that one cannot argue or accept that Jesus was merely a great moral teacher because his moral teachings would be invalidated by virtue of either his lying or his insanity.
Arguably the most influential theologian of the past century, the great Anglican lion C.S. Lewis came to the Church rather late, at the age of 33; "I came into Christianity kicking and screaming. The most reluctant convert of all time." He'd been a good atheist for most of his early life but was brought to the Church "not by mythology, but the facts of the matter." One way he saw it was that people are willing to accept Jesus Christ as a great moral teacher, but Christ also claimed divinity, so 1: Jesus was telling falsehoods and knew it, and so he was a liar. Or 2: Jesus was telling falsehoods but believed he was telling the truth, and so he was insane. Or 3: Jesus was telling the truth, and so he was divine. Lewis maintained that one cannot argue or accept that Jesus was merely a great moral teacher because his moral teachings would be invalidated by virtue of either his lying or his insanity.