C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1898. He would die in 1963 and what a life he lived. He was known as Jack, and as far as we can tell, that was because of one of his dog's names from his early childhood, who was Jackson, and CS Lewis accepted that name and adopted that name for himself. He was an Oxbridge scholar, which meant that he had a position at both Oxford University

and Cambridge University.

He's been hailed as a philosopher, an Apollo and Cambridge University.

He's been hailed as a philosopher, an apologist, a theologian.

Of course he's probably best known for his Narnia Chronicles.

His actual profession was as a professor, a chair of medieval and renaissance literature.

Well, let's take a look at his life and let's bring one piece of that life to the surface,

and that is Sius Lewis as essayist.

While he was baptized as a child into the Anglican Church as a teenager he drifted into

agnosticism and then at the ripe age of 15 he declared himself to be an atheist.

As a teenager he also loved epic poetry.

He was taken by Norse mythology and all of the medieval literature.

Sius Lewis goes off to France. He saw the horrors of World War I being involved in trench warfare.

A shell exploded not too far from him, taking the lives of two

of his buddies and injuring him and then he was sent back to the UK to serve out the rest of the war on the home front.

He went on to his life of scholarship and

eventually he would be influenced by George McDonald

who would lead him from atheism to a generic theism and a belief in God in general.

And then through his friendship with J.R. Tolkien and continued reading of McDonald and others, he was led from theism to Christianity.

Tolkien would have much preferred that Lewis had joined him in the Catholic Church,

but Lewis went the way of Anglicanism, and went back into his Anglican church.

Lewis liked to call this Christianity, mere Christianity,

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