ATHEIST ONCE? WHY?
My Intrigue With C.S. Lewis
Militant atheist turned believer, author with stellar imagination,
creator of books that delight young and adult, deep insights into the spirit
realm hidden in his subtext; all of this draws me like a magnet again and again
to his writings and the life experiences and people that molded him.
Did you
know?
1. C.S.
Lewis lost his mother to cancer three months prior to his tenth birthday. (I
came to the United States as a ten year old.)
2. His
father never recovered from her death. He and his brother, Warren, for many years
felt estranged from their father.
3. He was convinced, as a child, because of his
mother's death, that the God he encountered in church and in the Bible she gave
him was, if not cruel, a vague abstraction.
4. A few years later, with the influence of a
spiritually unorthodox boarding school house matron, C.S. Lewis forsook
Christianity and became an avowed atheist.
3. Digory, the boy in C.S. Lewis's, The Magician's Nephew, had a mother who
was seriously ill. (Did the author write himself into that story?)
So
after such information, what captivates me most about Lewis? The amount of pain
experienced as a child from the separation from his mother and then his father.
As many of you know, I was an Operacion
Pedro Pan child. I know of that parent/child separation.
What else fascinates me about this author? The people that came later into his life. They made such a
difference.
Who were
they? The people that made the difference?
And how did that difference contribute to his
classic writings?
(To be continued.)
Jack Lewis - Clive Staples Lewis (CS) Lewis
My research and study of this author's life has been
ongoing for years.
Credit, in preparation for this material, goes to:
Narnia Beckons,
by Ted Baehr and James Baehr.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The
Narnian, The Life And Imagination Of C.S. Lewis,
by
Alan Jacobs
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