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C.S. Lewis considered himself a middle of the road Anglican, although he was validly baptized in the low Anglican church of Ulster Northern Ireland. By the influences of G.K. Chesterton and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as others and the general air of Oxford, he became more of a high church Anglican, and even a sort of Anglo-Catholic, to which he himself would never admit. While he didn’t come into communion with all the sacraments, he did have a respect for the Real Presence, and he had a respect for the devotion to Mary, which most protestants call idolatry and throw away instantly. Most importantly, Lewis converted and apologized for neither Anglicanism or Catholicism: he brought people to “a hallway, with many doors which may lead to salvation,” but he did not profess to know with certainty which door was most correct (Mere Christianity). Also, he was influenced, in part, by Thomas Aquinas through Dante and direct reading, so his moral views and even some other theological ones are not outside the teaching of the Catholic Church, even if he never professed it himself. Case and Point, there is no need to put C.S. Lewis into a category, as he himself hung somewhere between Anglicanism and Catholicism at the end of his life, and he would classify himself as an Ulster protestant, of the lowest variety. Read C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church by Joseph Pearce; it shines a good light on the question.
