A scholar of medieval literature at Oxford and later Cambridge, Lewis lost his childhood faith and found it again in his thirties, partly through talks with his friend J. R. R. Tolkien. His wartime radio talks on Christianity became Mere Christianity, and his Narnia books reached millions of children. He wrote with unusual clarity about pain, love, grief and the moral law.
Core ideas
There is a moral law that all cultures recognize and none invented
Our desire for joy points to something beyond this world
Reducing values to feelings would abolish what makes us human
The tradition: Christian apologist
Christian apologetics is the reasoned defense of the faith for a skeptical audience. Lewis is its most popular modern practitioner, arguing from common experience rather than from theology.
