British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
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He built a wardrobe that led to another world, then spent the rest of his career trying to explain why adults needed one too. The Oxford don who gave children Narnia and gave doubters a case for belief—argued with the rigor of a scholar and the clarity of someone who'd lost faith once and fought his way back.
Clive Staples Lewis was born 29 November 1898, baptized in the Church of Ireland, and lost his faith entirely by adolescence. He held a literature post at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1925, where he became close friends with J. R. R. Tolkien—both active in the Inklings, an informal Oxford literary circle. At 32, influenced by Tolkien and others, Lewis returned to Anglicanism and became what he called "an ordinary layman of the Church of England." That conversion reshaped everything: wartime radio broadcasts on Christianity brought him wide acclaim, and he turned out more than 30 books across…
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I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.
Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
A man, an adult, is precisely what Aeneas] is: Achilles had been little more than a passionate boy.
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