Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.

Alister E. McGrath
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  1. For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

  2. Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.

  3. Science proceeds by inference, rather than by the deduction of mathematical proof. A series of observations is accumulated, forcing the deeper question: What must be true if we are to explain what is observed? What "big picture" of reality offers the best fit to what...

  4. Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.

  5. Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.

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