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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 1363795" data-attributes="member: 2795">I don't see how anyone can reach that conclusion if they've honestly studied his theological works. Lewis was certainly Christian, and he certainly believed Christianity was the most true system of belief, but he was hardly unable to admit that there is a great deal of good to be found in almost all systems of belief.And I know what you mean about his science fiction. It took me a while to get with the program, so to speak, with his space trilogy. They were quite quirky, but I stuck to it and finally, I guess, "got it." (I had similar difficulties with G. K. Chesterton.) I doubt I'll ever read them again, but I seldom read a book more than once, so that's not much of a criticism from me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />No argument about Doolittle, but emphasis added for a reason. It can often be cogently argued that today's standards are painfully hypersensitive. I'm often amazed that anyone bothers writing comedy any more.With Lewis I think the increasing "obscurity" of his work has less to do with him, and more to do with us. Lewis lived and wrote in a milieu that has disappeared, and has largely faded from common memory. Increasingly, I think, his works will be more difficult to read not because Lewis was [insert least favorite -ist], but because the historical context within which he wrote is so unfamiliar to so many people. For example, his The Abolition of Man is horribly dated.</blockquote>

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