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C. S. Lewis

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Adammi

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Lewis was not Catholic.
Many of his close friends and colleagues were Catholic. Many people have converted to Catholicism because of him, such as Walter Hooper, an Anglican Preist.
Many people speculate that had he lived longer he would have converted.

~Adam
 
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ATShavuot said:
Would anyone recommend reading anything by him?
(I am compiling a Christimas List)
Two of my favorite books of His were Mere Christianity and the ScrewTape Letters. Both are of great value and offer excellent insight.
 
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CS Lewis describes himself (in the intro to Mere Christianity) as being non-denominational

Actually...

mere christianity said:
I am a very ordinary layman of the Church of England

taken from the preface to mere christianity
 
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I recommend any of Lewis works, they are great. He was an atheist, whom converted to christianity. He was an Anglican layman, but his thinking is very similar to Catholic thinking, and I am sure that if he had lived longer he would have either converted to Orthodoxy or Catholicism.
 
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I've read some parts of "Mere Christianity" and it's great, especially in times of doubt or when others are bugging you for being a Christian. Well, to me it is, I'm still having problems with my faith, it's not strong enough.

Other books I like is "Out of the Silent Planet" and "That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups", though I'm not finished with the last one.
 
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I really like Lewis' works, but it is important to be aware that he was an Anglican. Some Anglican points of view are evident in his writings. As I recall, he saw denominationalism as no big deal. Lewis seemed to think that choosing a church was something like a matter of taste or a matter of fit. That is definitely an Anglican way of thinking, the sort of fuzzy Protestant idea of a completely invisible, spiritual, unknowable Church.

Otherwise Lewis is very strongly conservative and almost Catholic in his thinking.

I recommend his writings.
 
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The Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength) is excellent. If you want to read some of his fiction I would hightly recommend it.

Till We Have Faces is a beautiful retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche (thought it's really about her sister Orual).

Both of these works are wonderful and are too often overlooked.
 
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Maximus said:
I really like Lewis' works, but it is important to be aware that he was an Anglican. Some Anglican points of view are evident in his writings. As I recall, he saw denominationalism as no big deal. Lewis seemed to think that choosing a church was something like a matter of taste or a matter of fit. That is definitely an Anglican way of thinking, the sort of fuzzy Protestant idea of a completely invisible, spiritual, unknowable Church.

Otherwise Lewis is very strongly conservative and almost Catholic in his thinking.

I recommend his writings.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Maximus again.
:doh:
 
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