Grasping for the Wind

Gresham and Lewis

Was CS Lewis a great scholar? Undoubtedly. Was he a great writer? No honest scholar today can doubt that for a moment. Now some of his stories are moving into the medium of film, he is becoming more known throughout the world, greatly accelerating a trend that has been slowly happening over the 40 years since his death. Was CS Lewis a great teacher? That, I think, is also unquestionable: he taught at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and teaches on today through his books. Was he a great theologian? Many of today's finest Christian scholars strongly believe so. Although he would never have laid claim to any of those titles, nor perhaps even have accepted them from others, he was all of those things and a great deal more besides.

Douglas Gresham remembers his stepfather C.S. Lewis in this article in preparation for the re-release of the play Shadowlands, a fictional account of Lewis' life.

Posted by John on October 4, 2007 01:37 PM | Posted to Fantasy | History | Literature and Language
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