C.S. Lewis

There's not much we need to say about C.S. Lewis, evangelicalism's favorite High Anglican. He was one of the few public intellectuals who championed Christianity (and his own Christian experience) at a time when it was nearly career suicide to do so. And he had an admirable ability to explain deep matters of faith in a simple, straightforward, and engaging manner.

Since Lewis is well-known and his books are widely available, we carry only a few of his books that are personal favorites:

(To order all four books, choose The C.S. Lewis Collection.)

• Mere Christianity is Lewis's best-known book, one that has helped bring many curious unbelievers to the faith (including me).
• The Screwtape Letters is a very funny book and very profound about Hell, where the devil oversees a vast bureaucracy of demons who are charged with keeping human beings out of God's clutches.
• The Great Divorce is not quite as funny, but in some ways even more thought-provoking as it imaginatively investigates some truths about Heaven.
• The Abolition of Man is a small masterpiece which both predicts and refutes the century's gradual drift into postmodern thinking.