Author famed for 'The Chronicles of Narnia' also devout Christian who wrote often on faith
The Christian faith of early 20th-century Irish author C.S. Lewis is enjoying a rebirth right now as American culture, and the wider Western world, appear to have lost a sense of right and wrong.
Credit the recent rediscovery of the author's writings on religion, culture and morality, including "A Christmas Sermon for Pagans," published in December 1946 in Strand magazine.
The letter compared pagan, or what he called pre-Christian beliefs, to those that emerged during and after the global crises and warfare of the early 20th century. He called it "post-Christian" philosophy.
"There is no objective right or wrong" among post-Christians, Lewis wrote in the "Christmas Sermon."
"Each race or class can invent its own code or ‘ideology’ just as it pleases."
He added, "Now if the post-Christian view is the correct one, then we have indeed waked from a nightmare."
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The Christian faith of early 20th-century Irish author C.S. Lewis is enjoying a rebirth right now as American culture, and the wider Western world, appear to have lost a sense of right and wrong.
Credit the recent rediscovery of the author's writings on religion, culture and morality, including "A Christmas Sermon for Pagans," published in December 1946 in Strand magazine.
The letter compared pagan, or what he called pre-Christian beliefs, to those that emerged during and after the global crises and warfare of the early 20th century. He called it "post-Christian" philosophy.
"There is no objective right or wrong" among post-Christians, Lewis wrote in the "Christmas Sermon."
"Each race or class can invent its own code or ‘ideology’ just as it pleases."
He added, "Now if the post-Christian view is the correct one, then we have indeed waked from a nightmare."
'Christmas Sermon' by author C.S. Lewis warned of a world that no longer knew right from wrong
The religious writings and Christian philosophy of C.S. Lewis are finding new adherents as he appeared to predict the current state of a culture without moral clarity.
