[GodGunsGuts]

I appreciate what your message, but you would have to show me something (in the context of his entire body of work) that would suggest that Lewis endorsed “Christian Socialism.” Based on what I have read, Lewis would be opposed to socialism (Christian or otherwise) because it would concentrate too much power in the hands of the state.

[mjolnir]

Even more so than Chesterton, Lewis is against the empowerment of the state, but as I said, that is NOT what he means by "Christian Socialism". I believe that the Screwtape Letters proper have a more explicit endorsement of what he calls "Christian Socialism", but I'll have to look it up.This is the best I can do right now--- the part I linked to from "Toast":

"But by the latter part of the century the situation was much simpler, and also much more ominous. In the English sector (where I saw most of my front-line service) a horrible thing had happened. The Enemy, with His usual sleight of hand, had largely appropriated this progressive or liberalizing movement and perverted it to His own ends. Very little of its old anti-Christianity remained. The dangerous phenomenon called Christian Socialism was rampant. Factory owners of the good old type who grew rich on sweated labor, instead of being assassinated by their workpeople -- we could have used that -- were being frowned upon by their own class. The rich were increasingly giving up their powers, not in the face of revolution and compulsion, but in obedience to their own consciences. As for the poor who benefited by this, they were behaving in a most disappointing fashion. Instead of using their new liberties -- as we reasonably hoped and expected -- for massacre, rape, and looting, or even for perpetual intoxication, they were perversely engaged in becoming cleaner, more orderly, more thrifty, better educated, and even more virtuous. Believe me, gentledevils, the threat of something like a really healthy state of society seemed then perfectly serious."