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[[Image:Jhcfju6.jpg|right|thumb|C. S. Lewis, 1947.]]

[[Image:Jhcfju6.jpg|right|thumb|C. S. Lewis, 1947.]]

C.S. Lewis (full name: '''Clive Staples Lewis''') (1898-1963) [[Christian]] apologist and intellectual known for taking complex theological issues and writing about them plainly for the layman to follow.  He was raised in the Church of [[Ireland]] before becoming an atheist as a teenager.  Only as an adult when he was already a professor at [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]] did he come "kicking and screaming" to understand that God did exist.  From there it was an easier step to embrace the realization of [[Christianity]].<ref>Barnes, Peter, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/5052 C.S. Lewis and evolution] (Creation Ministries International), 2007.</ref>  He and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] were friends, both belonging to the group known as "the Inklings." and Lewis credits Tolkien with influencing his conversion.  He fought in the trenches during [[World War I]], and was extremely sceptical of those who did not either smoke or drink. <ref name="HOTF">[[Heroes of the Faith C.S.Lewis]] By Sam Wellman, Barbour Publishing, Inc. 1997.</ref>

C. S. Lewis (full name: '''Clive Staples Lewis''') (1898-1963) [[Christian]] apologist and intellectual known for taking complex theological issues and writing about them plainly for the layman to follow.  He was raised in the Church of [[Ireland]] before becoming an atheist as a teenager.  Only as an adult when he was already a professor at [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]] did he come "kicking and screaming" to understand that God did exist.  From there it was an easier step to embrace the realization of [[Christianity]].<ref>Barnes, Peter, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/5052 C.S. Lewis and evolution] (Creation Ministries International), 2007.</ref>  He and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] were friends, both belonging to the group known as "the Inklings." and Lewis credits Tolkien with influencing his conversion.  He fought in the trenches during [[World War I]], and was extremely sceptical of those who did not either smoke or drink. <ref name="HOTF">[[Heroes of the Faith C.S.Lewis]] By Sam Wellman, Barbour Publishing, Inc. 1997.</ref>

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, but it is more noticeably apparent in Lewis than in Tolkien.

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, but it is more noticeably apparent in Lewis than in Tolkien.

C.S. Lewis also wrote ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'', ''[[Miracles]]'',

C. S. Lewis also wrote ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'', ''[[Miracles]]'',

''[[The Problem of Pain]]'' , ''[[The Abolition of Man]]'' , ''[[The Great Divorce]]'' and ''[[Mere Christianity]]''.<ref name="HOTF" />  Over 200 million copies of his books have sold and they continue to sell many millions of copies a year. {{fact}}

''[[The Problem of Pain]]'' , ''[[The Abolition of Man]]'' , ''[[The Great Divorce]]'' and ''[[Mere Christianity]]''.<ref name="HOTF" />  Over 200 million copies of his books have sold and they continue to sell many millions of copies a year. {{fact}}

C.S. Lewis wrote in ''Mere Christianity'', <blockquote>"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 happy. {{fact}}"</blockquote>

C. S. Lewis wrote in ''Mere Christianity'', <blockquote>"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 happy. {{fact}}"</blockquote>

C.S. Lewis also wrote in ''Mere Christianity'', <blockquote>"That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. ... is a religion you could not have guessed. ... [I]t is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up.  It has just that queer twist about it that real things have." <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=xaiKVRqfSlsC&pg=RA1-PA27&lpg=RA1-PA27&dq=%22it+is+not+the+sort+of+thing+anyone+would+have+made+up%22&source=web&ots=8Ur9Pe1rBL&sig=7ctGd17k8AUy6akHehmevOzsiLk#PRA1-PA27,M1 A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works]</ref></blockquote>

C. S. Lewis also wrote in ''Mere Christianity'', <blockquote>"That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. ... is a religion you could not have guessed. ... [I]t is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up.  It has just that queer twist about it that real things have." <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=xaiKVRqfSlsC&pg=RA1-PA27&lpg=RA1-PA27&dq=%22it+is+not+the+sort+of+thing+anyone+would+have+made+up%22&source=web&ots=8Ur9Pe1rBL&sig=7ctGd17k8AUy6akHehmevOzsiLk#PRA1-PA27,M1 A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works]</ref></blockquote>

Although not an ardent anti-evolutionist, he wrote on the futility of [[materialism]]:

Although not an ardent anti-evolutionist, he wrote on the futility of [[materialism]]: