Any fans of C.S. Lewis here?

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I don’t want to bring a controversy, but even if his writing and thinking is christian and very enlight, he fill not the requierement in his personal life of sainthood.
 
Yes, but to answer he was Anglican, so the Catholic Church cannot judge him or raise him to sainthood. Presently, it never happened.
Next, he marry a divorcee.
 
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Yes, but to answer he was Anglican, so the Catholic Church cannot judge him or raise him to sainthood. Presently, it never happened.
Next, he marry a divorcee.
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As I said before, the sainthood or otherwise of Professor Lewis, as indeed that of Professor Tolkien, is not for us as laypersons to decide.
 
I have no problem interpretting The Great Divorce completely inline with the Church’s teaching on heaven, hell, and purgatory.
IIRC, Lewis stated that he did not intend any to make any definitive theological statement about these things, beyond illustrating that people who are damned, choose to be so.
 
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I have no problem interpretting The Great Divorce completely inline with the Church’s teaching on heaven, hell, and purgatory.
IIRC, Lewis stated that he did not intend any to make any definitive theological statement about these things, beyond illustrating that people who are damned, choose to be so.
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Indeed. Lewis also cautioned that he had no intention of making hard and fast statements about the nature of the next world.
 
You are off by 75 years or so with respect to the New Oxford Movement. Lewis may have been influenced by them, most high-anglicans were, but I don’t think he expected a general return to Rome
 
My favorite Narnia book is The Silver Chair, which I read at about 11 or 12. It was the weirdest book I’d ever read, and the only Narnia book I read at that time. So when I ran across his books as an adult, I was captivated, and eventually read all of them, and was saved reading Mere Christianity. (Didn’t become Catholic for another 25 years).

My favorite part in The Silver Chair is Puddleglum’s statement to the witch: “I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.” That statement has kept me going more than once when my faith wavered.
 
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My favorite part in The Silver Chair is Puddleglum’s statement to the witch: “I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.” That statement has kept me going more than once when my faith wavered.
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This is my favorite bit, too. In this scene, Puddleglum rises from being an eccentric, comic relief character to true heroic status. Putting out the Witch’s treacherous enchanted fire with his bare feet is pretty cool, too.

Edit: Tom Baker was the perfect Puddleglum in the BBC video rendition.
 
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Thank you for this! I have only ever read The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe…but plan to read them all to my boys and was worried about the best order to read to them. This helps!
 
do it by the dates of publication.

I think it’s the Horse and His Boy that also moves–it happens during the first book, but also makes more sense later. (The first book being Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, not the creation story now labeled book 1)

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I started this topic as I am a fan of the writings of C.S. Lewis, the great Christian apologist. Having been raised in an atheist household, my parents unwittingly gave me a boxed set of the Narnia books for my eleventh birthday, thus sparking a love affair that has lasted to this day. When I realised, at the age of twenty-three, that I believed in Christianity, I slowly made my way through Lewis’ apologetic writings for adults; then, ten years later when I converted to Catholicism, I found his writings most helpful, though he was nominally Anglican. I am curious if there are other admirers of this great man’s works here on CAF.
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Lewis was a talented writer to be sure. AND Why didn't C.S. Lewis and other Christian intellectuals become Catholic? | Catholic Answers
 
Didn’t you make a thread on one of his books?
 
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That person joined the site two hours ago and is apparently trolling for his own amusement.
 
Yes, The Robe was excellent and I will be reading the Big Fisherman soon. I’m sure it’ll be excellent.
 
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