C.S. Lewis did not start out as a Christian.
By 1929, he had moved from atheism to belief in God. He later called himself the most dejected and reluctant convert.
He still thought Christianity sounded like myth. He loved old stories about dying and rising gods. He did not think the resurrection was history.
On September 19, 1931, Lewis walked at Oxford’s Magdalen College with J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. They talked late into the night.
Tolkien argued that myth was not the enemy of truth. He said the old stories were hints and echoes of something real. He framed Christianity as the moment the myth becomes fact. And he pushed it further. Even if you doubt it happened in our world, he said, it happened on a certain level of reality, and it changes everything.
Lewis later described this idea as a true myth. A story that moves the heart like other myths. And also claims to have happened in real time.
Not long after, Lewis embraced Christianity. He went on to write books like Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia. He became one of the most widely read Christian writers of the 20th century.
By 1929, he had moved from atheism to belief in God. He later called himself the most dejected and reluctant convert.
He still thought Christianity sounded like myth. He loved old stories about dying and rising gods. He did not think the resurrection was history.
On September 19, 1931, Lewis walked at Oxford’s Magdalen College with J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. They talked late into the night.
Tolkien argued that myth was not the enemy of truth. He said the old stories were hints and echoes of something real. He framed Christianity as the moment the myth becomes fact. And he pushed it further. Even if you doubt it happened in our world, he said, it happened on a certain level of reality, and it changes everything.
Lewis later described this idea as a true myth. A story that moves the heart like other myths. And also claims to have happened in real time.
Not long after, Lewis embraced Christianity. He went on to write books like Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia. He became one of the most widely read Christian writers of the 20th century.
C.S. Lewis did not start out as a Christian.
By 1929, he had moved from atheism to belief in God. He later called himself the most dejected and reluctant convert.
He still thought Christianity sounded like myth. He loved old stories about dying and rising gods. He did not think the resurrection was history.
On September 19, 1931, Lewis walked at Oxford’s Magdalen College with J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. They talked late into the night.
Tolkien argued that myth was not the enemy of truth. He said the old stories were hints and echoes of something real. He framed Christianity as the moment the myth becomes fact. And he pushed it further. Even if you doubt it happened in our world, he said, it happened on a certain level of reality, and it changes everything.
Lewis later described this idea as a true myth. A story that moves the heart like other myths. And also claims to have happened in real time.
Not long after, Lewis embraced Christianity. He went on to write books like Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia. He became one of the most widely read Christian writers of the 20th century.
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