Cs lewis biography powerpoint examples
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Life of C S Lewis
Lesley Miller Fortriede
2004
C. S. Lewis has been most recognized through his literature that gave the general public a better insight into Christian theology, written during a life that was a journey through atheism to Christianity. C. S. Lewis was criticized by his peers as well as some scholars in today's society for oversimplification of Christian beliefs. He has also been made into an icon of Christian apologetics for the way he was able to make Christianity understandable to everyone. C. S. Lewis did not set out to be a Christian theologian. His goal was to win people over to Christianity. People who view C. S. Lewis's work and see it as overly simplified are not viewing it the way it was meant to be read. C. S. Lewis had no degree in theology and never claimed to be an expert in it. He gave the people of his era a view of Christianity that was to help them understand what it was about without giving them complex treatises detailing the issues. There was a time in the 1940's and 1950's in which C. S. Lewis was a household name in both America and England. He was famous for his radio talks as well as for the books he wrote. Lewis's name and works gained atten
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis A Brief Biography by Jeff Gordon
“Endless Books” (Lewis 10) • C. S. Lewis was born in Belfast on November 29, 1898 (Visser).
Education After attending horrific schools as a boy, a private tutor prepared Lewis for undergraduate studies at University College, Oxford (Sayer 66).
Tutor, Lecturer, Scholar After a brief stint in the British army, Lewis took three first-class degrees from Oxford and ultimately began teaching English there at Magdalen College (Sayer 107).
The Writer Once established at Oxford, Lewis wrote scholarly books like The Allegory of Love (1936) and theological works like The Screwtape Letters (1942). (Visser)
C. S. Lewis Goes to Venus • In Perelandra, Lewis shows human beings exporting evil to outer space. • Lewis believed that this middle book in his Space Trilogy was the best (Sayer 180).
Conversion Lewis was for many years a convinced atheist. He attributed his conversion to Christianity to his reading and to the influence of friends like Hugo Dyson and J. R. R. Tolkien (Lewis 216).
The Kilns: Lewis’s Oxford Home (Sayer 140)
The Wardrobe In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the wardrobe functions as a symbol for the human capacity to pass from the ordinary to the extraordinary (Ford