“Lo que surge de la vida conjunta del Padre y el Hijo es una auténtica Persona; es, de hecho, la Tercera de las tres Personas que son Dios. Esta Tercera Persona se llama, en lenguaje técnico, el Espíritu Santo o el Espíritu de Dios. No os preocupéis ni os sorprendáis si lo encontráis bastante más vago y difuminado en vuestra mente que a los otros dos. Creo que hay una razón por la que esto debe ser así. En la vida cristiana no se suele estar mirándolo a El: Él está siempre actuando en vosotros. Si pensáis en el Padre como en alguien que está «ahí fuera», delante de vosotros, y en el Hijo como en alguien que está a vuestro lado, ayudándoos a orar, intentando convertiros en otro hijo, entonces tenéis que pensar en la Persona como en alguien que está dentro de vosotros, o detrás de vosotros.”
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.