Mere Christianity

[HolyWarrior]

 

[ComplineSanFran]

I’m sure he wasn’t ashamed of Catholicism. He is said to not have converted because he wasn’t convinced of papal infallibility and had trouble with the role of the Virgin Mary in the church.
After all, he didn’t have the benefit of Catholic Answers.

Or perhaps he loved Anglicanism.

 

[kill051]

commenter:

If I could recommend a pair of his books, it would be “That Hideous Strength” and “The Abolition of Man”.

Excellent picks, but I suggest reading the other two books of that trilogy first: Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra.

The Geeat Divorce is wonderful as well… in fact, everything I’ve ever read by him is top-shelf.

OH, OH! - Till We Have Faces!! Read that too!

Heck, just get everything he ever wrote.

Till We Have Faces is perhaps the most intensely personal of Lewis’ fiction, and I second the advice not to read it as the first Lewis if nothing else has yet been read. I also agree that That Hideous Strength is best read in context as the final volume of the Space Trilogy, after Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. A friend once described That Hideous Strength as the greatest Charles Williams novel not actually written by Williams, and there is something in that, though much as I love Williams’ work, his style tends to the abstruse and arcane, where Lewis is delightfully cogent and clear, even when writing about profound mysteries and mysticism.

 

[dochawk]

Not only that, but Lewis several times reveals his strong belief in Purgatory. I don’t know whether or not that is part of the Anglican faith, but Lewis certainly took its existence for granted.

You are not likely to find space between Lewis and Catholicism theologically. He didn’t stay Anglican over objections to Catholicism, but in the expectation of union. Someone needed to stay Anglican to help get it done.

hawk