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Synopsis
"C. S. Lewis was the most talented and lucid apologist for Christianity that the last century produced. In essays, critical studies, poems, novels and works of autobiography, he turned his formidable literary gifts to the task of representing the Christian view of human destiny to a world bewildered by scientific materialism. He did not shirk the real difficulties that Christian belief encounters, nor did he downplay the cost of faith in an age of self-indulgence." Philip Van der Elst surveys the whole of Lewis's output and gives a clear summary of his stance towards the outstanding questions of our civilization. Setting the writings within the context of Lewis's own painful life and striking conversion, he shows the enduring importance of a thinker whose vision of modern life was both comprehensive and profoundly optimistic.