Christianity

Clive Staples Lewis 1898–1963 – an outstanding British writer, author of the famous series The Chronicles of Narnia, with a total circulation exceeding 100 million copies. However, Lewis is also widely known as an author of philosophical works on Christianity, which significantly reflected his personal religious experience. In his teenage years, Lewis strayed from faith under the influence of the atheistic views of his teacher, but by the age of 30, now influenced by his university environment and one of his best friends – John R.R. Tolkien, he returned to the Anglican faith. By the end of his life, he began to lean towards Catholicism and received his last communion in the Catholic rite. The collection includes three classic works by Lewis on Christian apologetics – Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, and The Abolition of Man. Clive Staples Lewis, one of the first Christian philosophers of the 20th century, proposed the bold idea of ecumenical Christianity, not tied to a specific confessional affiliation. True faith has nothing to do with the disagreements of various branches of Christianity, and it is this, according to Lewis, that embodies the essence of mere Christianity.