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Was C.S. Lewis a Judeo-Christian?

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Was C.S. Lewis a Judeo-Christian?

Postby Teutonic » Tue Jun 07, 2016 1:38 pm

I have a few of his books and I like his arguments against atheists but I also notice a slight anti-German attitude that permeates his writings...no doubt they were written during or after the world war(s). Also was he a Universalist?
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Re: Was C.S. Lewis a Judeo-Christian?

Postby EzraLB » Thu Jun 09, 2016 5:07 am

I would say, yes, C.S. Lewis was very much a Judeo-Christian--so much so that he married Joy Davidman, an "American" of jewish descent born in the Bronx. She was a radical communist and a feminist who at one time worked in Hollywood as a scriptwriter.

He obviously believed that this Edomite jewess could be "saved" by believing in "Jesus" as is demonstrated by the Judeo epitaph he wrote for her grave:

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes, yet with hopes that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day

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Re: Was C.S. Lewis a Judeo-Christian?

Postby bahr » Thu Jun 09, 2016 6:45 am

I have read his "Cosmic Trilogy", which is well written and entertaining, but in this story, different species living on other planets are destined to live in "peace and harmony" with each other, because it is the will of powerful spiritual beings/angels. So yes, C. S. Lewis clearly believed and promoted the universalism of "Judeo-Christianism".
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