“Eso explica lo que siempre solía intrigarme acerca de los escritores cristianos: parecen ser tan estrictos en un momento dado y tan libres y desenfadados en otro. Hablan acerca de meros pecados de pensamiento como si estos fueran inmensamente importantes, y luego hablan de los más terribles asesinatos y las más pavorosas traiciones como si lo único que hubiera que hacer fuese arrepentirse y todo será perdonado. En lo que siempre están pensando es en la marca que cada uno de nuestros actos deja en ese minúsculo núcleo central que nadie ve en esta vida pero que cada uno de nosotros tendrá que soportar —o disfrutar- para siempre.”
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Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.
C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.
Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.
"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.