C.S. Lewis
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.[Citation Needed] 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. He fought in the trenches during World War I. [1]
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.
C.S. Lewis also wrote The Screwtape Letters, Miracles, 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. (Reference needed)
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 happy." (Reference needed)
C.S. Lewis also wrote in Mere Christianity, "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." [2]
