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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...

method is regarded as being applicable to any problem, it is no longer interested in accepting other types of human experience. Even so great a biologist as Julian Huxley argues that “any set of phenomena can be treated by the method of science.”16 That kind of epistemological arrogance leads to the unlimited application of science to all areas of life, including philosophy and religion. Modern science was tainted from its birth, Lewis contends, by the impulse to extend man’s power to the performance
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