Topic > Simple Christianity - 605

CS Lewis was born in 1898 in Belfast, Ireland. Lewis's early education was in a boarding school and by a tutor. Lewis then attended Oxford University. Lewis's mother, father and brother all died in 1908. Lewis was a Christian from a young age and then around 1911 he drifted away from the faith. In 1917, during the First World War, he joined the British Army. In 1919 he was discharged from the army. In 1920 Lewis moved in with the family of his best friends, the Moores (who died in the war). In 1929 Lewis became a theist. In 1931, after a long conversation with two friends, Lewis converted to Christianity. He taught at Oxford University and Cambridge. In 1944 all of Lewis's speeches on BBC radio were collected and published under the name “Mere Christianity”. Mrs. Moore died in 1951. Lewis married in 1956 to an American woman, Joy Davidman, so he could obtain British citizenship. Joy then died as her cancer returned in 1960. Lewis resigned his position at Cambridge due to heart problems and died later in 1963. In Lewis's first book he shows a version of the moral argument for e....