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C. S. Lewis took up his apologetic pen because he felt that most theologians spoke jargon. “Any fool can write learned language,” he said, “the vernacular is the real test. If you can’t turn your faith into it, then either you don’t understand it or you don’t believe it.” In the infernal correspondence of Screwtape, the haunting myths of his Space Trilogy, and the allegories of Narnia, he brings...

Although scholars disagree about technical questions relating to apologetics, Lewis clearly understood his own role as an apologist. There were three essential facets in his purpose: (1) to present the Christian faith to unbelievers, (2) to defend the Christian faith on behalf of his uneducated fellow Christians, and (3) to defend traditional Christianity. In the Preface to Mere Christianity, Lewis states: “Ever since I became a Christian I have thought that the best, perhaps the only, service I
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