5/17/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis cupid and psyche![]() He was in every sense of the word a man of letters who indulged his magnificent and magnanimous gifts across every literary genre. Chesterton burst upon the literary scene as a journalist and controversialist at the beginning of the last century and continued to pour forth works of effervescent wit and wisdom until his death in 1936. Although both men are known for their lucid and accessible exposition of Christian doctrine in their works of non-fiction, most notably in Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man and in Lewis’ Mere Christianity, it would be true to say of both writers that some of their finest apologetics is to be found in their works of fiction.īorn in 1874, G.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking up the mantle of their illustrious nineteenth century forebear, John Henry Newman, who blazed the trail that they would follow, Chesterton and Lewis were in the vanguard of the Christian cultural revival that produced some of the greatest literary works of the past 150 years. Their combined legacy as indomitable Christian apologists in an age of skepticism is without equal in the English-speaking world. Lewis straddle the twentieth century literary landscape like beacons of faith and reason, shining forth in the fog and murk of modernity. ![]()
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