By Stewart Goetz
Although it's been virtually seventy years due to the fact that Time declared C.S. Lewis one of many world's so much influential spokespersons for Christianity and fifty years considering Lewis's loss of life, his impact is still simply as nice if no longer higher this day.
whereas a lot has been written on Lewis and his paintings, nearly not anything has been written from a philosophical viewpoint on his perspectives of happiness, excitement, ache, and the soul and physique. hence, not anyone to date has well-known that his perspectives on those issues are deeply fascinating and arguable, and-perhaps extra jarring-no one has but properly defined why Lewis by no means grew to become a Roman Catholic. Stewart Goetz's cautious research of Lewis's philosophical idea unearths oft-overlooked implications and demonstrates that it was once, at its root, at odds with that of Thomas Aquinas and, thereby, the Roman Catholic Church.
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