XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, alt.christnet.evangelical   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   Andie Soyboy   
   22 July at 15:05  ·   
      
   The pursuit of scholarly truth can often topple some of   
   evangelicalism’s sacred cows. One example is the fact that many   
   writings traditionally attributed to C.S. Lewis are actually works of   
   pseudepigrapha.   
      
   No scholar worth his salt would maintain that the same man who wrote a   
   children’s story about a magical wardrobe also wrote books on   
   Christian Apologetics in addition to various essays on 16th century   
   English Literature. The stylistic differences between these books are   
   simply too vast to be the work of a single author.   
      
   So do we have any hope of identifying a real Historical Lewis? I don’t   
   think so. So far I have identified at least three distinct authors of   
   these works: Proto-Lewis, Deutero-Lewis, and Trito-Lewis,   
   respectively. Further scholarly work on the matter may reveal a dozen   
   or more contributors to the Lewisian corpus.   
      
   But all this shouldn’t shake our faith in the books’ usefulness.   
   Despite the fact that C.S. Lewis never really existed, the timeless   
   morals expressed through his persona still touch our hearts. Even   
   though Lewis never really lived, he still lives on!   
      
   --   
   Stephen Hayes, Author of The Year of the Dragon   
   Sample or purchase The Year of the Dragon:   
   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/907935   
   Web site: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
   Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com   
   E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk   
      
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