“Olhei e vi a última coisa que esperava ver: um enorme leão avançando para mim. E era estranho porque, apesar de não haver lua, por onde o leão passava havia luar. Foi chegando, chegando. E eu, apavorado. Você talvez pense que eu, sendo um dragão, poderia derrubar a fera com a maior facilidade. Mas não era esse tipo de medo. Não temia que me comesse, mas tinha medo dele... não sei se está entendendo o que quero dizer... Chegou pertinho de mim e me olhou nos olhos. Fechei os meus, mas não adiantou nada, porque ele me disse que o seguisse.”
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Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.
C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.
Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.
"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.