Dec 30, 2009

Surprised by Joy | Surprised by Joy

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A longtime friend and literary executor of the Lewis estate, Owen Barfield, has suggested that there were, in fact, three C.S. Lewises. That is to say, there were three different vocations that Lewis fulfilled—and fulfilled successfully—in his lifetime. There was, first, Lewis the distinguished Oxford don and literary critic; second, Lewis the highly acclaimed author of science fiction and children’s literature; and third, Lewis the popular writer and broadcaster of Christian apologetics. The amazing thing, Barfield notes, is that those who were...

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