![]() ![]() That theoretical discussion takes on a vivid personal flavor in the writing of A Grief Observed after his wife died a painful death as a result of cancer. In 1940 The Problem of Pain was published, his first attempt to deal topically with a theological issue. ![]() His space trilogy was published at intervals: Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945). His serious religious writing begin to appear in the 1930s. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. You must picture me alone in that room at Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. The most notable lines in that book are these: Surprised by Joy (1955) is the story of his return. Kirkpatrick (“The Great Knock”), drilled into him the kind of rigorous thinking that would ultimately lead him back to faith. But the disciplined thought of a new teacher, a highly moral Scottish atheist, W. Unhappy educational experiences contributed to his turn to atheism. Lewis (1898-1963), the well-known Christian apologist, was born in Ireland to nominal Anglican parents. ![]()
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