Clive Staples Lewis

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C.S. Lewis was a 20th Century Anglican author. His sayings are often quoted in traditionalist Christian circles, especially in World Orthodoxy. As a committed Anglican, he was staunchly ecumenist.

Writings

The Screwtape Letters

The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast were a series of fictional letters from a senior demon to a junior demon, largely dealing with the subject of tempting men into sin. In this the religious views of Lewis, especially on sin, salvation, and ecclesiology, are revealed by the words of the demonic protagonist. There are a number of marked differences from Holy Orthodoxy. For example those who oppose ecumenism are called Pharisees and Lewis paints a lurid picture of anti-ecumenists of opposing views being damned together and forced to mingle forever in hell.[1]

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia is a fantasy novel series involving travel to another world inhabited by talking animals. Besides other bizarre and blasphemous themes, the story involves an alternate version of Jesus Christ, in which the Logos would supposedly incarnate into another world (in addition to His actual human incarnation) as a talking lion who is killed and resurrected.[2][3][4]

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References

  1. This review or this one or read the context directly in Screwtape Proposes a Toast: “The wickedness of other religions was the really live doctrine in the religion of each; slander was its gospel and denigration its litany.”
  2. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/themes/christian-allegory
  3. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63379-i-am-in-your-world-said-aslan-but-there-i
  4. https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/09/the-hidden-story-of-narnia.html