C. S. Lewis

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I too agree that Lewis was more Catholic than most Protestants, and for that matter more Catholic than a great many Catholics. 😉

And I too owe him a debt in my return to the Church. In my fallen-away years I had purchased a compendium of his works off the bargain table because I had heard he was “interesting”. But I never opened the book, and it sat on a shelf for years. Then an event happened which started me seeking again, and I thought of that book, and in it I read his spiritual autobiography “Surprised by Joy”. It’s a wonderful book, and I knew that feeling! I knew the fleeting awareness that he called Joy. It all made sense!

His book cemented my return to the Church. I’ve read a good deal of his writings since then, but still hold a special place for “Surprised by Joy”.
 
Love him. He’s up there with Fulton Sheen and Chesterton with me. I love the “prophets of common sense”… 🙂

There is a really good book that I’m currently reading called C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church by Joseph Pearce. It’s a very thorough, yet readable book that covers pretty much everything on this topic: Tolkein, The Inklings, A Pilgrim’s Regress, Chesterton, etc. Pearce also examines the phenomenon of C.S. Lewis inspiring coverts to the Catholic Church.
 
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Here’s a great website for all you C. S. Lewis fans:

groups.yahoo.com/group/SpareOom/

We are a motley group, consisting of Catholics and Protestants, PhD’s, scholars, authors and just plain ordinary folks who happen to like ol’ Jack. We discuss his works but sometimes wander off to those of his friends and fellow-Inklings like J. R. R. Tolkien and Charles Williams, and his mentors George Macdonald and G. K. Chesterton. And every now and then we engage in Creed Wars or go completely off-topic to discuss everything under the sun except Lewis, though the ListDragon has instituted a rule, never really enforced, that we talk about Lewis at least 50% of the time, the 50% Lewis Content (LC) Rule. All non-Lewisian postings are supposed to be marked NLC (No Lewis Content) to give members fair warning if they should decide not to read them.

As one of SpareOom’s denizens I invite all true Lewis fans to enter through the War Drobe in the Professor’s Spare Oom and exit on the other side where Mr Tumnus and the rest of us await you with hot tea and crumpets in the Never Never Land called Narnia, wherein Aslan also dwells.

I am known there by a different name. Maybe you’ll recognize me. Hope to see you there.
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In the end there are only two kinds of people, those who say to God, "Thy will be done" and those to whom God says, "*thy* will be done."
 
---C. S. Lewis, "The Great Divorce."
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It’s nice to see someone who’s familiar with Charles Williams 🙂 Williams was an influence on Dorothy Sayers, whose “Notes” in her translation of Dante’s “Commedia” refer to him often.​

IMHO, there is more theology in the Narnia Chronicles than in all the theologians this century - or quite a few others. One never reads those books without finding further depths of meaning in them 🙂 😃
 
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