 Cook Wilson’s ideas had a limited impact on Oxford theology. Acknowledging his debt, the theologian and philosopher C. C. J. Webb described religious experience as one that “cannot be adequately accounted for except as apprehension of a real object” (Webb 1945, 38), but he nevertheless chose to describe his standpoint as a form of ‘Platonic idealism’ (Webb 1945, 35). Cook Wilson’s realism also formed part of the philosophical background to C. S. Lewis’ “new look” in the 1920s, via E. F. Carritt’s teaching. In Surprised by Joy, Lewis also described awe as “a commerce with something which […] proclaims itself sheerly objective” (Lewis 1955, 221), but he quickly moved away from this position (see Lewis (1955, chaps. XIII–XIV) and McGrath (2014, chap. 2)).