c s lewis is ok was ancient books in article apr athos rutgers edu mayne ds scri fsu edu bill mayne wrote the last sentence is ironic since so many readers of soc religion christian seem to not be embarrassed by apologists such as josh mcdowell and c s lewis the above also expresses a rather odd sense of history what makes you think the masses in aquinas day who were mostly illiterate knew any more about rhetoric and logic than most people today if writings from the period seem elevated consider that only the cream of the crop so to speak could read and write if everyone in the medieval period knew the rules it was a matter of uncritically accepting what they were told bill mayne this may be unfair to lewis the most prominent fallacy attributed to him is the liar lunatic and lord as quoted by many christians this is a logical fallacy in its original context it was not clh exactly c s lewis has taken a couple of pretty severe hits in this group lately first somebody was accusing him of being self righteous and unconvincing now we are told that we christians should be embarrassed by him as well as by josh mcdowell about whom i have no comment having never read his work anyone who thinks that c s lewis was self righteous ought to read his introduction to the problem of pain which is his theodicy in it he explains that he wanted to publish the book anonymously why although he believed in the argument he was presenting he did not want to seem to presume to tell others how brave they should be in the face of their own suffering he did not want people to think that he was presenting himself as some kind of model of fortitude or that he was anything other than what he considered himself to be a great coward ofm has adequately handled the question of whether we ought to be embarrassed by lewis liar lunatic lord argument which by the way is part of a much bigger discourse i would just like to add that far from being embarrassed by lewis i am in a state of continual amazement at the soundness and clarity of the arguments he presents phil hey we re talking about the phone company here the phone company doesn t have opinions on this kind of stuff this is all me
