“Escritores utilizan la palabra caridad para describir no sólo el amor cristiano entre seres humanos, sino también el amor de Dios para con los hombres y de los hombres para con Dios. Acerca de la segunda clase de amor la gente a menudo se preocupa. Se les dice que deben amar a Dios. Y no pueden hallar ese sentimiento en sí mismos. ¿Qué deben hacer? La respuesta es la misma que antes. Comportaos como si lo amarais. No intentéis fabricar sentimientos. Preguntaos: «Si yo estuviera seguro de amar a Dios, ¿qué haría?» Cuando hayáis encontrado la respuesta, id y hacedlo.”
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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.