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C.S. Lewis

Narnia / faith · Oxford, UK

Why C.S. Lewis matters

Lewis made spiritual imagination accessible through story.

C.S. Lewis

The AngryPages case

Why taking a stand mattered

Here, anger means refusal: the injury, limit, danger, or convention this person would not leave alone. The proof is what they created next and what changed because it existed.

What hurt

Faith, temptation, sacrifice, and moral responsibility can become bloodless when confined to abstract argument.

What they created

C.S. Lewis created stories and imagined worlds that let readers encounter those questions through children, creatures, danger, wonder, and choice.

What changed

Spiritual imagination became accessible without ceasing to be story. The doorway carried the ideas across generations.

Major works

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

1950

Mere Christianity

Mere Christianity

Various publishers · Edition year varies

The Screwtape Letters

The Screwtape Letters

Various publishers · Edition year varies

The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain

Various publishers · Edition year varies

The Space Trilogy

The Space Trilogy

Various / see source · Year varies

The story

Faith, myth, and children's adventure became a portal fantasy that endured.