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C. S. Lewis

The Problem of Pain

C. S. LewisNonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was a British scholar and author who lived from 1898 to 1963. Born in Belfast, Ireland, Lewis served in the British Army during World War I before joining the faculty of Magdalen College at Oxford, where he eventually became a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature. He later left for Cambridge University, where he assumed the post of Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature in 1954.

Raised a Christian, Lewis abandoned his beliefs in 1911, only to experience what he termed a “conversion” as a university student. His journey from atheism back to Christianity was a common topic of Lewis’s writings, the earliest of which were published under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton. Lewis belonged to the Church of England and is known as an Anglican author. Despite never training as a theologian, Lewis did receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrew’s in 1946.

C. S. Lewis authored over 30 books and became one of the best-known and most widely read Christian writers in the world. His most well-known books are The Screwtape Letters (1942), Mere Christianity (1952), and the Chronicles of Narnia series (1950-1956). One of the chief reasons C.

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