I first read Lewis when I was in high school, and was completely mesmerized by his writing. His ability to cut through to the core of any issue, shine light on the most central elements of Christian belief and display Christian theology’s penetrating grasp of human nature were, in my admittedly limited experience, unparalleled. Moreover, in deftly managing the daunting balance between a keen and easy accessibility of language together with a real logical rigor of thought conveyed by that language,