Alive to Wonder Celebrating the Influence of C.S. Lewis
and firm convictions that he himself would not have held. There was something about the way Lewis read Scripture that made my own embrace of inerrancy tighter, not looser. There was something about the way he spoke of grace and God’s power that made me value the particularities of the Reformation more, not less. There was something about the way he portrayed the wonders of the incarnation that made me more suspicious of his own inclusivism, not less. There was something about the way he spoke of doctrine as the necessary roadmap that leads to Reality,29 and the way he esteemed truth and reason and precision of thought, that made me cherish more, not less, the historic articulations of the biblical explanations of how the work of Christ saves sinners—the so-called theories of the atonement. It may be that others, by Lewis, have been drawn away from these kinds of convictions and experiences. But I doubt very seriously that more people on the whole have been weakened in true biblical commitments than have been strengthened by reading Lewis.
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