C. S. Lewis

Lewis stitched literary criticism, popular apologetics, and children’s myth into one unmistakable accent: surprised by joy as autobiography’s spine, Mere Christianity as wartime clarity—debated ever since for ease and exclusions—Narnia as imaginative catechesis some readers never outgrow.

Scholars parse his medieval debts; critics press gender and empire; admirers testify to metaphor’s converting kindness.

Outdeus highlights Lewis as a modern figure weighing myth’s truth-status, the ethics of choice under grace, and theodicy’s problem of animal pain—arguments wearing story-clothes, inviting conceptual chase without academic throat-clearing.