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Thank you. I always feel conflicted about an introduction I can't possibly live up to.

And I thank you for doing half my work for me.

You gave me the title.

Question.

I have to give you the content, the answer.

Getting a question out is much more difficult than we think.

And finding answers are much easier than we think.

A lot of answers out there.

So many that it's confusing.

My students often ask me for topics to write extra credit essays on, and I say, A lot of answers out there. So many that it's confusing.

My students often ask me for topics to write extra credit essays on, and I say I love extra credit essays, but I'm not going to steal half your work from you.

You have to get the question out.

What question tugs at your mind and art?

That's the question you should write on.

So thank you for giving me a fascinating question. I've never talked on this before. Thomas Aquinas and C.S. Lewis are probably my two favorite writers in the whole world. And this is the first time I've gotten to put them in some sort of dialogue. So, bottom line first. Was C.S. Lewis amist or not? And the answer is yes and no.

Yes, deeply. No on the surface.

The two main reasons for the no answer are, first, that Lewis was not a philosopher.

He trained for philosophy. At Oxford, you read the

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