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   From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   In alt.books.cs-lewis Catherine Jefferson  wrote:   
   >   
   > I have run into conservative Restorationists who disapproved of C. S.   
   > Lewis, though.  They would have agreed with the fundamentalists about   
   > "The Last Battle", but in general the reasons they gave for disliking   
   > Lewis amounted to his being too liberal for them.  I think that they   
   > meant that he was unwilling to judge others as harshly as they thought   
   > God had taught in the Scriptures.   
      
   I'm one of those you call "conservative Restorationists" (though from   
   the independent Christian Churches side of the aisle rather than the   
   non-instrumental Churches of Christ camp) and I've been an admirer   
   of C.S. Lewis since my late teens/early twenties in the early-to-mid   
   1970s.  Much of my personal theology has been shaped (or at least heavily   
   influenced) by Lewis, especially his "Abolition of Man," "Problem of Pain"   
   and "Mere Christianity."  My Restorationist friends tend to admire his   
   work also, though perhaps not quite to the extent I do.   
      
   >   
   > A college roommate, who was at least as out of place at our liberal arts   
   > college as I was, gave me her copy of Lewis's "Til We Have Faces".  She   
   > had been told that it was a great Christian book, read it, and was   
   > completely put off when she found no mention of Christ in it but a pagan   
   > myth.   
   >   
   > I read it and was bowled over.  Of all the books Lewis wrote, it is in   
   > my view the best.   
      
   I read "Till We have Faces" around 1974 and wasn't too impressed,   
   largely because I wasn't really ready to appreciate it.  After Bible   
   college and grad school (working on an MA in Classics) I was far more   
   familiar with the Classical world and had more knowledge of the Bible and   
   Western philosophical traditions. I also had a much clearer idea of what   
   I believe and why I believe it, and came to value "Till We Have Faces"   
   much more highly than on my first reading.   
      
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   F. Wayne Brown    
      
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