![]() ![]() ![]() After all, the Gospel according to John says that God is love. When Lewis set out to explore love in his work, he figured it’d be fairly straightforward. One subject that fascinated him was love. He used writing as a way to meditate on and explore different aspects of Christianity. If you’ve read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and you’re familiar with Christianity, you won’t need anyone to point out how allegorical the story is.īut Lewis didn’t just explore his faith through novels about magical wardrobes and lions that rise from the dead. This return to the church had a huge impact on Lewis’s writing. Tolkien was deeply religious and his faith inspired Lewis to renew his relationship with God after he’d abandoned Christianity in his teens. ![]() They met while they were working in the English faculty at Oxford University and were two of the founding members of Inklings – a renowned literary discussion group. Tolkien, who wrote The Lord of the Rings. Lewis is probably most famous for his children’s book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. ![]()
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