![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis vehemently wanted to believe in the existence of a material world where death was the end and actions were not guided by rules he sought the freedom of actions that this outlook would supposedly grant and, as a hardy atheist wary of conversion, fought against any possible intrusion of Christianity and what he saw as the laborious constraints inherent in religion. Although brought up Christian, Lewis felt an aversion to his religion, especially as he grew older and was forced through a horrible school experience. Surprised by Joy functions not as an autobiography of the beloved author so much as a spiritual argument governed not by emotion but by pure rationality, getting to Lewis’s anti-sentimental personality and his attraction to the world of philosophy and intellectualism. Tolkien actually spent most of his life as an ardent atheist. Lewis, famed for his work within Christian apologetics, his religious metaphorical children’s novel series The Chronicles of Narnia, and his friendship with J.R.R. ![]() An Honest, Intellectual Progression from Atheism to ChristianityĬ.S. ![]()
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