C. S. Lewis is known as one of the foremost Christian apologists of the twentieth century. He was a convinced atheist until he was 32, when, after lengthy conversations with his friend J. R. R. Tolkien, he became the “most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”1 Professor of Medieval Literature at Oxford, his gifts in speaking and writing gave him a widespread audience to speak of the Christian faith. (His death on November 22, 1963, was little noted at the time since it occurred on the same day as the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.)
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