C. S. Lewis

GREATEST CHRISTIAN APOLOGIST OF THE 20TH CENTURYThe tutor of Ulster Irishman C.S. ‘Jack’ Lewis said the boy at 15 had original literary judgment and he was the best translator of Classics he had ever known. Yet four years later, in 1919, Lieutenant Lewis was badly wounded in France, a casualty of World War I. He recovered, an atheist hardboiled and argumentative. At Oxford University he was baffled. His favorite books were by Christians. His favorite professors were Christians. The brightest students were Christians. And his best friends were Christians. By 1930 friends like J.R.R. Tolkien had converted him to Christianity.C.S. Lewis was a Lion for Truth. Over the next 30 years his apologetics totaled one million words. His scholarly works totaled another million. And his fiction totaled yet another million. Plus he wrote 20,000 or so letters.Many more than 100 million copies of his books have been sold. His Narnian fantasy - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - alone has sold 85 million copies. In 2013, fifty years after his death, the public still annually buys one million books by C.S. Lewis.