Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) assumed that he would be forgotten within five years of his death. While he may have been a great Christian apologist, Lewis was clearly no prophet: Children are still reading “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”; his trilogy — “Out of the Silent Planet,” “Perelandra” and “That Hideous Strength” — is a science fiction classic; and his thoughtful justification for religious belief, “Mere Christianity,” has been voted the most influential religious book of the 20th century. Just recently it was reissued in a handsome new gift edition by HarperOne.
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