“Un Jesús histórico no puede, de hecho, ser adorado. En lugar del Creador adorado por su criatura, pronto tienes meramente un líder aclamado por un partidario, y finalmente un personaje destacado, aprobado por un sensato historiador. Y en cuarto lugar, además de ser ahistórica en el Jesús que describe, esta clase de religión es contraria a la historia. A los hombres se les ha privado del material necesario para una biografía completa. Los primeros conversos fueron convertidos por un solo hecho histórico (la Resurrección) y una sola doctrina teológica (la Redención), actuando sobre un sentimiento del pecado que ya tenían; y un pecado no contra una ley inventada como una novedad por un “gran hombre”, sino contra la vieja y tópica ley moral universal que les había sido enseñada por sus niñeras y madres. Los “Evangelios” vienen después, y fueron escritos, no para hacer cristianos, sino para edificar a los cristianos ya hechos.”
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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.