If you like C.S. Lewis you should also check out G.K. Chesterton:
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. A dead dog can be lifted on the leaping water with all the swiftness of a leaping hound; but only a live dog can swim backwards. A paper boat can ride the rising deluge with all the airy arrogance of a fairy ship, but if the fairy ship sails up stream it is really rowed by the fairies. And among the things that merely went with the tide of apparent progress and enlargement there was many a demagogue or sophist whose wild gestures were in truth as lifeless as the movement of a dead dog's limbs wavering in the eddying water; and many a philosophy uncommonly like a paper boat, of the sort that it is not difficult to knock into a cocked hat.
If you like C.S. Lewis you should also check out G.K. Chesterton:
Chesterton knows what time it is. That's why he's disappeared from the reading lists at most elite colleges.
We need to support great books courses and schools that actually engage socratically
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Thanks for the suggestion. I can see the appeal.
Hear hear! He had something to say about everything and he said it better than everybody else.
The Everlasting Man is a beautiful work. I'd recommend it to every Christian.
Of course then there's Heretics, and Orthodoxy. His biographies of Saints Francis and Thomas Aquinas. All worth reading.
"a demagogue or sophist whose wild gestures were in truth as lifeless as the movement of a dead dog's limbs wavering in the eddying water"
ugh. Maybe this is me.
Maybe it is all of us, at one time or another.
I guess you'll know if you can't go the other direction.