"The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles."
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Born in Belfast, C.S. Lewis was one of the most influential Christian writers of his day and made significant contributions to popular theology as well as children's and fantasy literature. During his lifetime he wrote more than 30 books, including the highly acclaimed The Chronicles of Narnia, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. Lewis was appointed to the position of Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford and served there for 29 years. A one time devout atheist, he credits friend J.R.R. Tolkien for his conversion to Christianity. In fact, he and Tolk…
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