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Why C.S. Lewis Is as
Influentialas Ever?
David J. TherouxFounder and President,
The Independent Institute;Founder and President,
C.S. Lewis Society of California
1. Lewis showed that reason is the anchor of faith.2. Lewis punctured the pomposity and the pretension of modern elite intellectuals.3. Lewis noted that “Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”4. Lewis restored a Christian vision of humanity—the eternal destiny of every human being.
“I believe in Christianity as
I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see
it,but because by it
I see everything else.”—C.S. Lewis
The Abolition of Man
“Indeed when Gentiles do by nature things required by
the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they
do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of
the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also
bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now
even defending them.”
—Romans 2:14-15 Apostle Paul
“The universe we observe has precisely the
properties we should expectif there is, at bottom,
no design, no purpose,no evil and no good,
nothing but blind,pitiless indifference.”
—Richard Dawkins
“If my mental processes are determined
wholly by the motion of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose that
my beliefs are true . . . and hence I have no reason for
supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.”
—J.B.S. Haldane
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