6/8/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis autobiography book![]() ![]() He then, for the first time, stopped having private tuition and went to school. Lewis’s childhood can best be described as chaotic. Lewis’s comment on this friendship in his autobiography Surprised by Joy (1955) is characteristic: “At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist, and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. It is no surprise that later one of his closest friends was another outsider – the South African Catholic J.R.R. In a majority Catholic country, his family were Ulster Protestants – but not the mainstream, nonconformist Protestants he was born into the Church of Ireland, a minority faith even within the Irish Protestant tradition. ![]() Later he reinvented himself as a quintessential Englishman who loved long walks in the country followed by a pint in the local pub but he was born doubly an outsider. Lewis by Darren McAndrew From Protestantism to Atheism and Back AgainĬlive Staples Lewis was born on November 29th 1898 in Belfast. ![]()
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