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The CS Lewis Podcast #61 Is Theology Poetry? CS Lewis’ essays and short writings

2022-07-04T15:00:00+01:00

Originally given as a talk in 1945, this was the first piece of Lewis’ writing that Alister Mcgrath ever read as a student and it had a profound influence on him. It includes Lewis’ memorable phrase: ‘I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.’

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