C. S. Lewis Surprised By Joy Analysis

From a lamp post that was there from the beginning and the girl that finds it to a talking lion that all you want to do is love and a witch that had the power to free the world over C.S. Lewis has brought us one of the world's greatest book series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Although C.S. Lewis is recognized throughout the world as a great Christian thinker, philosopher, apologist and writer, his theology often fails to meet the standards of most Evangelicals and is often at odds with the broader Evangelical community.
Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland in the winter of 1898. Lewis was the son of a clergyman and a mathematician. Lewis’s father, Albert James Lewis, was a clergyman. In his autobiography, Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, he describes his father as a man if he hadn’t gone to the church would have been a pollution to the courts (p. 4). Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta Lewis, was an extremely learned …show more content…
In John Piper’s article, Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul Learning from the Mind and Heart of C. S. Lewis, Piper writes on the facts that Lewis did not believe that the Bible was fully truth, he also believed that the Reformation could have been avoided, and he makes it the some people from other religions can be saved without knowing Christ. “There is almost no passage of Scripture on which I would turn to Lewis for exegetical illumination.” Piper does not believe that you can use Lewis to grow in understanding doctrine when it comes to the scriptures. Michael J. Christensen, in his book C. S. Lewis on Scripture, writes about the the fact that Lewis does not agree with evangelical fundamentalism in the fact that you can “be a dedicated evangelical” and accept the truthfulness and authority of scripture but disbelieve the book as a hole. These allegations put him at odds with people who praise his writings and call him an amazing apologetic