C.S. Lewis

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Clives Staples Lewis(November 29 1898, now Northern Ireland +-died November 22 1963). After serving in France in World War I(he was wounded by shrapnel, then discharged), he attended Oxford. When his roommate was killed in World War I, he befriended his mother + daughter. In 1920, Lewis decided to share lodgings to take car of them. Doc, as they called him, came to stay with the trio for 3 weeks. Doc underwent an ordeal of extreme mental torture. fter when he was hospitalized, Lewis wrote to his friend, Doc had believed he was in Hell. He wore out his body in the awful mental tortures, + then died from heart failure “unconscious at the end thank God.” Lewis suggested its a damned world + we 1ce thought we could be happy with books + music! He was a fellow + tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1925 until 1954. 1954 to 1963 he was professor of Medieval + Renaissance English at Cambridge. In youth he aspired to become a poet, but after (Spirits in Bondage 1919) + (Dymer 1926), under Clive Hamilton, he wrote scholarly + prose fiction. He rejected Christianity in his early teens + was atheist through his 20s. He turned to theism in 1930 + Christianity in 1931, with help from J.R.R. Tolkien, as described in Surprised by Joy(1955). He married Joy Gresham(American who became Christian through reading his books, by 1954 she + her unfaithful husband divorced. They wed in 1956 to give her legal rights in England. 6 months later she was diagnosed with cancer + 1957 they were wed by an Anglican priest, who prayed for healing. What she + Lewis thought a miracle, her cancer went into remission, for several years until it returned + she died, in 1960. Mere Christianity is a book explaining Christianity, given 1st on BBC for a wartime broadcast 1942-1944. They were 3 parts: Broadcast Talks, Christian Behavior, + Beyond Personality. He responded to all his mail as it was God's will. Other popular books are Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, Reflection of the Psalms, + The Chronicles of Narnia. As sales increased, he didn't compromise his style of living(in Christ). Having written a book on the 10 Commandments, Smoke on the Mountain, Joy encouraged him write apologetics. In the summer of 1963, he retired from his post at Cambridge, a few months before his death.

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C.S. Lewis | Biography, Books, Mere Christianity, Narnia, & Facts | Britannica

About C.S. Lewis - Official Site | CSLewis.com

C.S. Lewis: A Profile of His Life | Christian History Magazine (christianhistoryinstitute.org)

Biography

Clives Staples Lewis(November 29 1898, now Northern Ireland +-died November 22 1963). After serving in France in World War I(he was wounded by shrapnel, then discharged), he attended Oxford. When his roommate was killed in World War I, he befriended his mother + daughter. In 1920, Lewis decided to share lodgings to take car of them. Doc, as they called him, came to stay with the trio for 3 weeks. Doc underwent an ordeal of extreme mental torture. fter when he was hospitalized, Lewis wrote to his friend, Doc had believed he was in Hell. He wore out his body in the awful mental tortures, + then died from heart failure “unconscious at the end thank God.” Lewis suggested its a damned world + we 1ce thought we could be happy with books + music! He was a fellow + tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1925 until 1954. 1954 to 1963 he was professor of Medieval + Renaissance English at Cambridge. In youth he aspired to become a poet, but after (Spirits in Bondage 1919) + (Dymer 1926), under Clive Hamilton, he wrote scholarly + prose fiction. He rejected Christianity in his early teens + was atheist through his 20s. He turned to theism in 1930 + Christianity in 1931, with help from J.R.R. Tolkien, as described in Surprised by Joy(1955). He married Joy Gresham(American who became Christian through reading his books, by 1954 she + her unfaithful husband divorced. They wed in 1956 to give her legal rights in England. 6 months later she was diagnosed with cancer + 1957 they were wed by an Anglican priest, who prayed for healing. What she + Lewis thought a miracle, her cancer went into remission, for several years until it returned + she died, in 1960. Mere Christianity is a book explaining Christianity, given 1st on BBC for a wartime broadcast 1942-1944. They were 3 parts: Broadcast Talks, Christian Behavior, + Beyond Personality. He responded to all his mail as it was God's will. Other popular books are Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, Reflection of the Psalms, + The Chronicles of Narnia. As sales increased, he didn't compromise his style of living(in Christ). Having written a book on the 10 Commandments, Smoke on the Mountain, Joy encouraged him write apologetics. In the summer of 1963, he retired from his post at Cambridge, a few months before his death.