Although he knew epistemologically that God didn't exist, he still felt that there was something else 'out there.' This is different from agnosticism though - he believed that the 'something else' was not divine, but it was a Romantic quality. Everything, every sentence, in his spiritual autobiography is laden with some classical allusion to a work that the normal person hasn't read in Greek or Latin.Īfter the death of his mother in his youth, Lewis enters a long lasting period of atheism. Lewis, the man that 'thought his way to God' (according to the back of the book), isn't really all man - he's part reading machine. Send you an email message telling you why.C.S. If we decide not to incorporate your report, we will usually

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He is better known for his adult science fiction trilogy: 'Out of a Silent Planet', 'Perelandra', and 'That Hideous Strength'. His strong religious background influenced such books as 'The Problem of Pain' and 'The Screwtape Letters'. He was a fellow of Magdalen College, a prestigious College at Oxford University. Lewis (1898-1963) was a British literary scholar and novelist.

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