This rendered him poor during his lifetime.

He gave away a good portion of his royalties from his Christian books to those in need. Here are a few highlights about Lewis’s life: His BBC lectures from 1942 to 1944 eventually became his book Mere Christianity (1952), establishing him as a renowned defender. Christianity Today even called him “our patron saint.” According to Time magazine, Lewis was “one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world.”Īn erstwhile atheist, Lewis converted to Christianity and quickly became a renowned defender of the faith and an evangelical paragon. With the popularity of his Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters (both considered classics among evangelicals), Clive Staples Lewis is regarded by many to be a saint of evangelicalism. This being so, let's extend grace to each other whenever we disagree over theology (or politics).

Therefore, let's cut one another some slack when we encounter theological beliefs (or political beliefs) with which we disagree or find inaccurate.īecause evangelical Christians, as a whole, regard Lewis to be the greatest apologist (defender) of the Christian faith in modern history, these beliefs of his will surprise (and perhaps even shock) many evangelicals because they are regarded to be unbiblical by evangelical standards.

It's rather to show that despite his brilliance, he didn't get everything right. Author’s note: The intention of this chapter (and the book ReGrace) is not to degrade or criticize Lewis or any other leader of the past.

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