The World of C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) A British literary scholar, Christian apologist, and fantasy writer. C. S. Lewis was “a man who understood God with reason and felt Him with imagination.” Once an atheist in his youth, he journeyed through war and suffering, philosophy and literature, ultimately arriving at faith. He became one of the greatest thinkers and storytellers of the 20th century, building bridges between reason and belief, pain and hope, reality and fantasy. Childhood and the Beginning of Imagination He came from a cultured middle-class family. His father, Albert, was a solicitor, and his mother, Florence, an educated woman, taught Lewis both mathematics and literature. From early childhood, Lewis was a boy rich in imagination. Together with his older brother Warren, he created an imaginary kingdom called “Boxen,” inventing stories and drawing maps for it. However, in 1908, at the young age of nine, he suffered a great loss when his mother died of peritonitis. A...




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