>“Reconciling human suffering with the existence of God is only an insoluble problem if we persist in attaching a superficial meaning to the word love and in regarding the order of things as if man were its center.”
In the face of suffering, C. S. Lewis avoids the two errors common among philosophers and theologians: “underestimating this adversary” and wanting to explain everything. Even if they do so to glorify God and console men, the means is not a good one, because it is not true.
To a top-down logic, which claims to know everything about the designs of God and to explain the purpose of all our evils, Lewis prefers the bottom-up momentum that begins with our human experience, with its uncertainties, its groping, and its shadows. Without dodging the difficulties or hiding his own weakness, he encourages us not to push away the irruption of God’s power into our inner lives through the coming of Christ.
The author: Clive Staples Lewis, born in Belfast in 1898, was a professor of Medieval and Renaissance literature at the University of Oxford, and later at the University of Cambridge, until his death in 1963. This brilliant academic, also trained in philosophy, is also world-renowned for his novels (*Narnia*, *The Space Trilogy*) and acclaimed as the best lay apologist of the last century (*The Screwtape Letters*, *The Abolition of Man*, etc.). He returned to Christianity through reading George MacDonald and G. K. Chesterton’s *The Everlasting Man*, and through discussions with his Catholic friend J. R. R. Tolkien.
Translated by Denis Ducatel
ISBN: 9782740322185