“Es evidente que los regalos naturales llevan consigo un peligro similar. Si tenéis unos nervios sanos, una inteligencia desarrollada, salud, popularidad y una buena educación, es probable que estéis bastante satisfechos con vuestro carácter tal como es. «¿Para qué meter a Dios en esto?» Es muy posible que creáis que todas estas virtudes son obra vuestra, y también es fácil que no sintáis la necesidad de mejorarlas. A menudo, la gente que goza de esta clase de virtudes no puede ser llevada a reconocer su necesidad de Cristo hasta que un día las virtudes le abandonan y su autosatisfacción se ve defraudada. En otras palabras, es difícil para aquellos que son «ricos» en este sentido entrar en el Reino.”
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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.