According to one Lewis scholar, because Lewis was a ‘sacramentalist’, he believed that ‘Reality tends toward the concrete.’ Attempts to apprehend reality, this scholar notes in summarizing Lewis’s view, ‘are very far from being exhausted by [the] logical, the discursive, or the propositional’—that is, by reason alone. Hence, ‘Lewis, for all of his rigorous and remorselessly logical manner of pursuing an argument, was at bottom a “catholic”.’ The sacramental imagination is closely related to faith’s
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