Topic > The Great C.S. Lewis - 578

C.S. Lewis, the great author, wrote all kinds of reading material: poetry, novels, and even children's fiction. He also wrote at a young age. He would draw his own pictures. People of his time loved his books, and today people still love reading his books. This author was also intelligent, joyful and charitable. CS Lewis was a very intelligent man. He demonstrated this in many ways throughout his life. The way he lived is a great example. When Lewis became a Christian, as JI Packer and Jerry Root write in their article "Mind in Motion", his mental habits also remained unchanged. He was already thinking about how he thought a Christian should do it. He demonstrates his intelligence even during the tears of adolescence at Oxford, when he excelled as a student. He was also smart as a tutor. Kenneth Tynan, a former student of Lewis, recounts in the magazine article “Literary Time Travel” by Bruce L. Edwards: “The great thing about him as a teacher of literature was that he could take you into the medieval mind and into the mind of a classical writer. He could make you understand that classicism and medievalism were really vivid and alive, that it wasn't our job to be "relevant" to us, but our job to be. These were not dead, dusty books on our shelves. He could make you see the world through the eyes of a medieval poet like no other teacher could. You felt that you had been in Chaucer's mind after speaking with him. It's cases like these that demonstrate how intelligent CS Lewis truly was. CS Lewis was a very joyful man, and his joy shone through in everything he did. He assigned nicknames to his family and friends, such as Robert E. Havard "the Useless Charlatan" or as he called his walking companion A. C. Harwood, "the Lord of the Walks." Another glimpse of his joyful spirit comes when he finished his first day in Oxford and wrote to his father: “The place has surpassed my wildest dreams. I have never seen anything so beautiful." Finally, we see his joy when he wrote to one of his friends soon after the wedding: "It's fun to have the kind of happiness at 59 that most men have at 20... 'You've kept the good wine until now.'” C.S. Lewis was a very joyful man from whom people could learn a lot.