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C.S. Lewis was an academic scholar who loved literature. He and a number of scholars formed a group called “The Inklings.” These scholars that influenced Lewis were George MacDonald, Owen Barfield, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams, and J.R.R Tolkien. These group of scholars met regularly in Oxford to share one another works and discuss the christian faith. George MacDonald, particularly challenged C.S. Lewis’ christian theology. As a result of his love for literature and education, C.S. Lewis became a tutor at Oxford University. Students were given a tutor, who is a a distinct scholar in his own field. Lewis spent a lot of his time listening to students read their papers. This was not easily all the time, and there …show more content…
C.S. Lewis primary ministry was evangelism. He was able to expresse evangelism through his writing and speaking. He started this ministry shortly after his conversion to theism in 1931. Influenced by Owen Barfield, he felt strongly that it was every christian's job to go out into the world save save the lost souls. C.S. Lewis’ unexpected vision of incorporating his fiction as a way of evangelizing came quite early and surprisingly to him. In 1939, Lewis was very surprised that many reviewers saw the christian theology in his book Out of the Silents Planet. He was shocked to discover that the Gospel could be smuggled into people’s mind through his fiction. One of his famous work of fiction, The Chronicles of Narnia has Christian theology woven through the story. As a result of his great contribution to faith and literature, he was soon called a “literary evangelist.” C.S. Lewis’s evangelism was not directly to bring people to Jesus, but his job was to break down the intellectual prejudices of Christianity by pointing out and exposing the fallacies and to prepare people to receive and understand the Christian vision. His goal was to gain an atmosphere where faith could be logical and rationally possible, where faith
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C.S. Lewis was an academic scholar who loved literature. He and a number of scholars formed a group called “The Inklings.” These scholars that influenced Lewis were George MacDonald, Owen Barfield, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams, and J.R.R Tolkien. These group of scholars met regularly in Oxford to share one another works and discuss the christian faith. George MacDonald, particularly challenged C.S. Lewis’ christian theology. As a result of his love for literature and education, C.S. Lewis became a tutor at Oxford University. Students were given a tutor, who is a a distinct scholar in his own field. Lewis spent a lot of his time listening to students read their papers. This was not easily all the time, and there …show more content…
C.S. Lewis primary ministry was evangelism. He was able to expresse evangelism through his writing and speaking. He started this ministry shortly after his conversion to theism in 1931. Influenced by Owen Barfield, he felt strongly that it was every christian's job to go out into the world save save the lost souls. C.S. Lewis’ unexpected vision of incorporating his fiction as a way of evangelizing came quite early and surprisingly to him. In 1939, Lewis was very surprised that many reviewers saw the christian theology in his book Out of the Silents Planet. He was shocked to discover that the Gospel could be smuggled into people’s mind through his fiction. One of his famous work of fiction, The Chronicles of Narnia has Christian theology woven through the story. As a result of his great contribution to faith and literature, he was soon called a “literary evangelist.” C.S. Lewis’s evangelism was not directly to bring people to Jesus, but his job was to break down the intellectual prejudices of Christianity by pointing out and exposing the fallacies and to prepare people to receive and understand the Christian vision. His goal was to gain an atmosphere where faith could be logical and rationally possible, where faith