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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...

Lewis’ epistemology is adequate that does not include both reason and imagination in their respective functions. The epistemological function of reason and imagination for Lewis is rooted in his own experience. Reason and imagination, beginning early in his life and often pulling in opposite directions, were the controlling elements in Lewis’ intellectual and spiritual pilgrimage. Imaginative life came natural to Lewis: the Sehnsucht, the longing and desire for Joy, fairyland, and Norse and Celtic
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