Lewis quickly became my best friend, theologically speaking. Strange, I thought, that a high-brow English scholar would have written a book the publisher so assertively subtitled "What One Must Believe in Order to Be a Christian." (Newer editions of the book removed the subtitle.) Thumbing through the book, I was instantly captured by its obvious Christ-centeredness and clarity. The back cover of the slim, powder blue paperback reported that Lewis had been a Cambridge professor of Medieval and Renaissance literature. And he was a great friend of Lord of the Rings creator, J.R.R. For Lewis was, unbeknownst to me, renowned for a series of extraordinary children’s books, The Chronicles of Narnia. What could a weaver of children’s tales teach me about Christ?Īn odd question, given that Jesus himself said that we must become as little children to enter the kingdom of God. I confused him with Lewis Carroll of Alice in Wonderland fame. Mere Christianity sat innocently on the bookrack at a neighborhood bookstore, right next to end times prognosticator Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth.
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