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The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918–1945) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Making of C. S. Lewis is the second volume in a biographical trilogy covering Lewis’s life from 1898–1963. This installment surveys a period of Lewis’s life that is not well known, beginning with his years as a young adult and devout atheist at the end of his service in World War I, followed by his arrival at Oxford as a budding scholar. Harry Lee Poe offers a unique perspective on Lewis’s...

the most interesting matter involving Owen Barfield’s abandonment of materialism as he embraced anthroposophy. Barfield and Lewis had several long discussions about the change, but we do not have the substantive details.131 We do know that their prolonged dialogue would eventually play a role in Lewis’s abandonment of materialism. The most important matter at this stage in their relationship, however, involved a view of history. Like all good modernists since the
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