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C. S. Lewis for the Third Millennium: Six Essays on The Abolition of Man is unavailable, but you can change that!

Kreeft, one of the foremost students of Lewis’ thought, distills Lewis’ reflections on the collapse of western civilization and the way to renew it. Few writers have more lucidly grasped the meaning of modern times than Lewis. Kreeft’s reflections on Lewis’ thought provide explorations into the questions of our times, providing light and hope in an age of darkness.

Between different ages there is no impartial judge on earth, for no one stands outside the historical process; and, of course, no one is so completely enslaved to it as those who take our own age to be not one more period but a final and permanent platform from which we can see all other ages objectively. The Christian religion is like the history of the human race: messy, unpredictable, surprising, and lacking “suspicious a priori lucidity”, as Lewis puts it in Miracles: Christianity, faced with
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