George MacDonald
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MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries.
He influenced nearly everyone who was a major twentieth century writer (including Lewis Carroll, WH Auden, JRR Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, and CS Lewis. Not only was he a pioneer in the fantasy fiction genre, laying the path for people like Tolkien to write Lord of the Rings, but also a major Christian thinker, which influenced Lewis profoundly.
Lewis, in fact, wrote that MacDonald was his тАШmasterтАЩ, and said тАШI know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself.тАЩ
These words will challenge and uplift you, and illuminate the faith which underpins all of CS LewisтАЩs popular and enduring writing.
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Born in Ireland in 1898, Clive Staples
Lewis gained a triple First at Oxford and
was Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen
College from 1925-54, where he was a
contemporary of Tolkien. In 1954 he
became Professor of Mediaeval and
Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. C.
S. Lewis was for many years an atheist,
until his conversion, memorably
described in his autobiography
тАШSurprised by JoyтАЩ: тАЬI gave in, and
admitted that God was God ... perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.тАЭ He is celebrated for his famous series of childrenтАЩs books, the Narnia Chronicles (which have been filmed and broadcast many times), as
well as his literary criticism and science fiction. C. S. Lewis died on 22nd November 1963.
