During our World War II stories, we *had* to read books by C.S. Lewis, the renowned intellect and literary genius, who was formerly an atheist.
In time he turned to God and became a Christian through the influence of Christians George MacDonald and GK Chesterton.
DIALECTIC BOOK BY C.S. LEWIS
The quintessential story of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe makes for excellent dialectic/logic fare.
Set in Great Britain during WWII, four children are sent away from London due to the bombings from the German Luftwaffe.
They are sent to safety in the country, to a large estate home where they are given free run of the grounds.
While playing hide-n-seek they stumble upon a fascinating wardrobe, which at times becomes an entry part to another world…and becomes a word picture for enduring World War II.
RHETORIC BOOK BY C.S. LEWIS
Mere Christianity is a collection of essays Lewis read on the air at a radio station during WWII, that reviewers call “legendary.”
His premise was to stay away from the arguments that divide denominations and focus on the basic points of the Christian life as taught in the Bible.
The most famous part of his book is Lewis’ argument that Jesus is either liar, lunatic, or Lord.
After Lewis wrote The Problem with Pain in 1940, he was approached by a reader who directed Religious Broadcasting for the BBC:
I write to ask whether you would be willing to help us in our work of religious broadcasting … The microphone is a limiting, and rather irritating, instrument, but the quality of thinking and depth of conviction which I find in your book ought to be shared with a great many other people. -James Welch, BBC
Originally presented during World War II as 15-minute weekly talks on the BBC, called Right and Wrong: A Clue to the Meaning of the Universe, Lewis’ apologetics talks were published in 1952 as a book, titled Mere Christianity.
Mere Christianity has become a classic, regaled as one of the most essential 20th century books regarding apologetics.
