![]() ![]() ![]() In 1943 Great Britain, when hope and the moral fabric of society were threatened by the relentless inhumanity of global war, an Oxford don was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.' It was this experience that helped him to understand not only apathy but active unwillingness to accept religion, and, as a Christian writer, gifted with an exceptionally brilliant and logical mind and a lucid, lively style, he was without peer. Lewis was for many years an atheist, and described his conversion in Surprised by Joy: 'In the Trinity term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God. He was an outstanding and popular lecturer and had a lasting influence on his pupils.Ĭ. In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. ![]() He gained a triple first at Oxford and was a Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College 1925-54. ![]() Lewis was educated at Malvern College for a year and then privately. (The publications and articles on this website we believe to be useful for the growth and edification of the Church, however, we do not necessarily endorse the author in all that they teach or that they are without error in other areas of Christian Doctrine.)īorn in Ireland in 1898, C. ![]()
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