A man can't be always defending the truth; There must be a time to feed on it." -C.S. Lewis Reflections on the Psalms
This issue of Christian History Magazine is the first we have done on a 20th century figure. It is our intention to treat 20th Century persons only occasionally within these pages.
The selection of Lewis coincided with a commitment to make a major dramatic film biography on his life. The film is a co-production by the BBC, Gateway Films and The Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation. Your publisher served as associate producer to the project.
Several factors made Lewis a fascinating and appropriate subject for the film production and this issue. He was a layman, not an ordained clergyman. Yet, he was one of the most effective apologists for Christianity in this century (perhaps any century), and his apologetical writings were not even his main professional activity but more of an avocation. Equally interesting is the fact that he wrote so effectively for small children as well as for ...
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