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'''Clive Staples ("C.S.") Lewis''' (born November 29, 1898, [[Belfast]] - d. November 22, 1963, [[Oxford]]) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] writer, novelist, essayist, moral mythologist, philosopher and a world-acclaimed master of [[Christian apologetics]].  He is considered by many to have been the greatest intellectual defender of [[Christianity]] in the 20th century.  He is famous for writing ''[[Mere Christianity]]'' (3 books), ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' and, before that, ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]''.  It is estimated that more than 200 million copies of his books, which total 21 (some count 40), have sold. He wrote 3,200 letters.<ref>https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/spending-a-pleasant-hour-with-lewis</ref> '''''C.S. Lewis converted from [[atheism]] to [[Christianity]] based on reasoning and logic'''''.

'''Clive Staples ("C.S.") Lewis''' (born November 29, 1898, [[Belfast]] - d. November 22, 1963, [[Oxford]]) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] writer, novelist, essayist, moral mythologist, philosopher and a world-acclaimed master of [[Christian apologetics]].  He is considered by many to have been the greatest intellectual defender of [[Christianity]] in the 20th century.  He is famous for writing ''[[Mere Christianity]]'' (3 books), ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' and, before that, ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]''.  It is estimated that more than 200 million copies of his books, which total about 40 including his works of fiction, have sold. He wrote 3,200 letters.<ref>https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/spending-a-pleasant-hour-with-lewis</ref> '''''C.S. Lewis converted from [[atheism]] to [[Christianity]] based on reasoning and logic'''''.

He was a proponent of [[natural law]] and explained it further,<ref>https://www.discovery.org/a/1004/</ref> most notably in C. S. Lewis shows in

He was a proponent of [[natural law]] and explained it further,<ref>https://www.discovery.org/a/1004/</ref> most notably in C. S. Lewis shows in

You might ask how I combined my directly Atheistical thought with my Occultist fancies. They had only this in common, that both made ''against'' Christianity. And so, little by little I became an apostate, dropping my faith. Dear Miss C. had been the occasion of much good to me as well as of evil. Nor would I deny that in all her 'Higher Thought,' disastrous though its main effect on me was, there were elements of real and disinterested spirituality by which I benefited.<ref name="ReferenceA">'''Lewis''', ''Surprised by Joy'' op cit.</ref>}}

You might ask how I combined my directly Atheistical thought with my Occultist fancies. They had only this in common, that both made ''against'' Christianity. And so, little by little I became an apostate, dropping my faith. Dear Miss C. had been the occasion of much good to me as well as of evil. Nor would I deny that in all her 'Higher Thought,' disastrous though its main effect on me was, there were elements of real and disinterested spirituality by which I benefited.<ref name="ReferenceA">'''Lewis''', ''Surprised by Joy'' op cit.</ref>}}

His melancholy search for the security and settledness he had taken for granted before his mother's death, the constant moving from school to school (where at each he  

His melancholy search for the security and settledness he had taken for granted before his mother's death, the constant moving from school to school (where at each he faced the loneliness of being a non-athletic boy whose [[Aesthetics|aesthetic]] sensibilities were out of step with his peers), combined with the "distant" personality of his father make his adolescent rejection of religion easier to understand. This is qualified by the adult Lewis himself when he later described his young self as being (paradoxically) "''very angry with God for not existing''".<ref name="ReferenceA">'''Lewis''', ''Surprised by Joy'' op cit.</ref>

faced the loneliness of being a non-athletic boy whose [[Aesthetics|aesthetic]] sensibilities were out of step with his peers), combined with the "distant" personality of his father make his adolescent rejection of religion easier to understand. This is qualified by the adult Lewis himself when he later described his young self as being (paradoxically) "''very angry with God for not existing''".<ref name="ReferenceA">'''Lewis''', ''Surprised by Joy'' op cit.</ref>

He left Cherbourg House in the summer of 1913 and enrolled at Malvern College (which he called "Wyvern") where he studied until June 1914. In September 1914, Lewis was enrolled for private tuition with W.T. Kirkpatrick, known as the "The Great Knock," in Great Bookham, Surrey, where he remained until April 1917. Kirkpatrick, a former Headmaster of Lurgan College, [[Northern Ireland]], had been both a tutor and legal client of Albert Lewis and had already successfully prepared Warren Lewis for admission to the Army's Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Lewis admired and strove to be like Kirkpatrick all of his adult life, and said of him "''[he was] a man who thought not about you but about what you said.''"<ref name="ReferenceA">'''Lewis''', ''Surprised by Joy'' op cit.</ref> It is clear that "Professor Digory Kirk" of the Narnia tales is a tribute to Kirkpatrick.

He left Cherbourg House in the summer of 1913 and enrolled at Malvern College (which he called "Wyvern") where he studied until June 1914. In September 1914, Lewis was enrolled for private tuition with W.T. Kirkpatrick, known as the "The Great Knock," in Great Bookham, Surrey, where he remained until April 1917. Kirkpatrick, a former Headmaster of Lurgan College, [[Northern Ireland]], had been both a tutor and legal client of Albert Lewis and had already successfully prepared Warren Lewis for admission to the Army's Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Lewis admired and strove to be like Kirkpatrick all of his adult life, and said of him "''[he was] a man who thought not about you but about what you said.''"<ref name="ReferenceA">'''Lewis''', ''Surprised by Joy'' op cit.</ref> It is clear that "Professor Digory Kirk" of the Narnia tales is a tribute to Kirkpatrick.

[[Image:Lewis_tombstone.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Lewis' tombstone]]

[[Image:Lewis_tombstone.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Lewis' tombstone]]

In June 1961, Lewis was diagnosed as having an enlarged prostate gland. He was initially fitted with a catheter, but this caused his kidneys to become infected, which in turn led to a heart problem which made it impossible to operate on him. In November 1963, he was diagnosed with end stage renal failure. Lewis showed a calm approach to death: "''I have done all I wanted to and I'm ready to go,''" he told his brother. Lewis died at 5:30&nbsp;p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963, at ''The Kilns'', one week before his 65th birthday. His death was largely ignored by the media, due to the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]] on the same day. He is buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford, where his funeral took place on Tuesday 26 November 1963. On his tombstone, his brother had engraved the words from ''King Lear'' which had been on the calendar on the day their mother had died: ''Men must endure their going hence''. Warren was buried beside his brother in 1973.

In June 1961, Lewis was diagnosed as having an enlarged prostate gland. He was initially fitted with a catheter, but this caused his kidneys to become infected, which in turn led to a heart problem which made it impossible to operate on him. In November 1963, he was diagnosed with end stage renal failure. Lewis showed a calm approach to death: "''I have done all I wanted to and I'm ready to go,''" he told his brother. Lewis died at 5:30&nbsp;p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963, at ''The Kilns'', one week before his 65th birthday. His death was largely ignored by the media, due to the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]] on the same day. He is buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford, where his funeral took place on Tuesday 26 November 1963. On his tombstone, his brother had engraved the words from ''King Lear'' which had been on the calendar on the day their mother had died: ''Men must endure their going hence''. Warren was buried beside his brother in 1973.

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