Lewis was a man whose tremendous intellect was wedded to a powerful imagination--for it was in his flights of literary fantasy that his deepest perceptions of God were birthed.

Lewis wrote fiction like Narnia to 'baptise' children's imaginations with the mythology of the gospel, to reveal the magic of the symbols so that the gospel might live for them. "In using myth, Lewis says, 'we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction'". Lewis argued the importance of desire, wonder, and melancholy in the understanding of God. No desire can truly be satisfied, which is evidence that there is more to life than we can sense, and that we belong elsewhere. Fish do complain that the sea is wet.

Lewis argues that naturalism provides no basis for objective values, since there is no "outside" frame of reference in naturalism, and the consequence would be a morality of subjective choice. I do not find this argument compelling, as morality could be a social construct, devised for the wellbeing of the whole against dangerous individuals or small groups.

Lewis argues that God is the author of pleasure, and that evil could never invent one. Lewis liked his bodily pleasures - smoking a pipe, a mug of beer. I wholeheartedly agree with Lewis that pleasures offer us "glimpses of eternal joy . . . [that] spur us on to worship". Spiritual vices, like pride, are much more evil than bodily vices.

"All kinds of simple experiences can awaken within us a sense of God's reality, whether it be the call of a bird, the crisp sweetness of an apple or a refreshing splash in cool water. As our 'mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun,' so these 'patches of Godlight' give us a 'tiny theophany,' a vision of God".

"'You would not have called to me unless I had been calling you,' said the Lion".

ENDNOTES; LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF C. S. LEWIS WRITINGS