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Chronological Snobbery and the Problem of Evil
(Chapters 3 & 4)
C.S. Lewis had to overcome both of these intellectual issues before he could come to faith. The first was chronological snobbery—that beliefs from past times are necessarily untrue or at least dubious. Owen Barfield taught him to ask: Has a past belief been proved to be untrue? If so, where and how conclusively? The problem of evil had haunted him from the days of secondary school classes. Lucretius’ lines echoed Lewis’ doubts: “Had God designed the world it would not be, a world so frail and faulty as we see.” His answers are clear, concise, and memorable.
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Arthur W. Lindsley
Senior Fellow for Apologetics, CSLI Arthur W. Lindsley is the Vice President of Theological Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Works, & Economics. He has served at the C.S. Lewis Institute since 1987 both as President until 1998 and currently as Senior Fellows for Apologetics. Formerly, he was director of Educational Ministries at the Ligonier Valley Study Center, and Staff Specialist with the Coalition for Christian Outreach. He is the author of C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ, True Truth, Love: The Ultimate Apologetic, and co-author with R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner of Classical Apologetics, and has written numerous articles on theology, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, and the lives and works of many other authors and teachers. Art earned his M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.
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