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| − | C.S. Lewis (full name: '''Clive Staples Lewis''') (1898-1963) was raised in the Church of Ireland, and became in stages agnostic, theist, and [[Anglican]]. He was a professor at Oxford and Cambridge. He and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] were friends, both belonging to the group known as "the Inklings." He credits Tolkien with influencing his conversion. | + | #REDIRECT [[C. S. Lewis]] |
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| − | Lewis' fictional works include seven books for children known collectively as ''The Chronicles of Narnia,'' and three books for adults that fall broadly in the science-fiction genre: ''Out of the Silent Planet,'' ''Perelandra,'' and ''That Hideous Strength.'' Like Tolkien's fiction, these works have a Christian subtext, more noticeable in Lewis than in Tolkien.
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| − | C.S. Lewis also wrote The Screwtape Letters, Miracles,
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| − | The Problem of Pain and the Abolition of Man. Over 200 million copies of his books have sold and they continue to sell at a million copies a year.
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| − | C.S. Lewis wrote "In Mere Christianity," "All that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him
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| − | happy."
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| − | C.S. Lewis also said, "Christianity ... is a religion you could not have guessed ... It is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up."
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