How important is it to read C S Lewis for your faith journey?

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I’m not informed enough to know whether he has any weak points or not. He seems OK to me.
 
There was no need but it’s helpful to some.
Mere Christianity was a way to present the Christian faith to his audience, taking what each denomination had in common. I actually never finished the book. I only know about what I wrote because I only finished the preface and a bit beyond that.

I’ve never read the Chronicles of Narnia either. I saw the movies for the first two books though.
 
I think he’s pretty solid. Although it’s good to check the popular lay voices of the time against Church teaching (and that goes for everyone from Matthew Kelly to Scott Hahn to Dr. Kreeft). That way we aren’t taking on someone’s version or idea of what Catholicism is/ought to be.
 
Don’t know Matthew Kelly. Got to know a few others through Jeff Cavins Bible Video series.
 
A lot of folks like Kelly, I find him a little watery as far as content goes. I do think he’s helping bring people back to the Church and renew their faith, he’s just not my cup of tea. But then alot of what I read isn’t what other people prefer, so I have to be careful in turning my own opinion or bias into something it isn’t!
 
i’m also a big fan of dr scott hahn

Dr Hahn makes perhaps some of the best explanations of how protestantism is so very wrong
 
If you like him check out Called to Communion with Dr. David Anders, as well as his appearances on The Coming Home network and with Fr. Mitch on EWTN.
 
Try Tolkien.
His best book is Jonah (he translated it into English for the Catholic Jerusalem Bible use at Mass).

He and CS Lewis were great mates - hence Narnia and Lord of the Rings.
 
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Not all things will reach out to all people equally.

Much like proof or evidence.

So I don’t think you can label a generalised importance to anything in that manner.

To those whom it effected it’s importance is significant. To those it didn’t, obviously minimal.

Mere Christianity is worth reading though. As Dr. Craig and Bishop Barron recently stated; it is one of many bridges from which all denominations of Christians can find some common ground.

The very fundamentals of belief in Jesus are aplied. Which is essential in my opinion, when compared to the intricate detail and understanding applied to much more complex material.

Always look at coming to faith from the position of that lost laymen. For hardly any of the unsubscribed care for long winded doctrine and theology from the beginning.

Or in short; you have to give people a reason to want to understand, before they care to try.
 
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Not that important for me. Though I get it, I found Mere Christianity to be somewhat of an irritating read.

I haven’t read Chronicles of Narnia.
 
Chesterton’s Orthodoxy was of great help to me. I should read it again. Lewis not so much. I find some of his work too simplistic. I’ve never read the very popular Narnia works.
 
I’ll be honest with you, it’s not, but I do like CS Lewis’s writing. I’ve never read The Chronicles of Narnia, but I’ve been advised that everyone who reads them, does so in the wrong order. I actually have a collection of Lewis’s works, it was a good deal for less than $30 US.
 
Orthodoxy is good, but I think a lot of people might run into the opposite problem with Lewis’s simplicity, that is, Chesterton, by today’s standards, is quite complicated. The only reason I could read it, is because I’d always done well in English in school. With Chesterton, I feel like some people might need a thesaurus to figure the books out. Lewis might come across as simplistic, but that’s a lot more useful, a very big complaint, that people have about me personally, is that I tend to use too many big words in conversation. I know from experience, not Everyone likes that.
 
Well, I’m a university professor and big words are my stock and trade. The more complicated, the better for me. Chesterton’s wisdom and writing skill is extremely attractive to me, at least in that book (I don’t particularly like other writings). Anyway, different things appeal to different people (as well I know as a 30 year plus professor); it is often a mystery.
 
“Hence it is clear that the further a thing is from the First Mind, the more it is involved in the chain of fate; since so much the more it is bound up with second causes.” (STh I, q. 116, a. 4, c.)

I say that CS Lewis is further from the First Mind, then let say the Roman Pontiffs, the bible, the Angelic Doctor, who is known as the voice of the Fathers. Pope John XXII said, “By the use of his works a man could profit more in one year than if he studies the doctrine of others for his whole life”.

 
If you enjoy him, read him. Many of my friends loved the Narnia books in elementary school. I’m not really into fantasy stuff myself, but one of these years I might get around to reading Screwtape Letters.

However, these are not “important” books. For one thing, the man was technically an Anglican, and unlike many of his peers did not convert to Catholicism, although I know that some analysts say his writings reflect Catholic teachings. For another thing, “important” to me is reserved for the Bible and the Catechism. Everything else is optional and a matter of taste.
 
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