[Nosterrex]

I’ve read many of his books. I appreciate his apologetics on the Moral Law, and his “The Abolition of Man” is probably my favorite. While I was at Cambridge, I met a few of his students, although I was not a member of Lewis’ college. Lewis is your typical “broad and hazy” Anglican layman when it comes to theology. He is a gifted writer and philosopher. This helps explain his popularity among a broad spectrum of theological beliefs. Although Lewis was friends with a number of Roman Catholics, he was liturgically somewhere between Evangelicalism and Methodism.

[AnAmericanMother]

As an adult, I came at him not from the apologetics but from his professional work - the Oxford History volume, The Discarded Image, and the lectures that became A Preface to Paradise Lost. Those works are (of necessity) more Catholic in tone, even the last because he was looking more at the influences on Milton than Milton's own religious philosophy.

But how you can say he is on the Evangelical/Methodist continuum perplexes me. What Evangelical or Methodist did you ever meet that believed in either Purgatory or the Real Presence? My dear grandfather-in-law was a Methodist minister, and either of those doctrines would have curled his hair. And Lewis as an Evangelical is about as likely as Anthony Trollope as one. I would think the shadowy Presbyterianism of the Church of Ireland a far more likely influence on his Anglicanism (especially after reading The Pilgrim's Regress).