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C.S. Lewis, God and the Problem of Evil

C.S. Lewis, author of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, was a tireless academic defender of Christianity. Antony Flew examines his views on free will and evil.

It was in 1940 that C.S. Lewis published The Problem of Pain, his first major defence of Christianity. This was followed in 1942 by The Screwtape Letters, in 1943 by The Abolition of Man, in 1947 by Miracles and in 1952 by Mere Christianity. These five, along with nineteen other works by the same author, were all still available in paperback when I acquired my present copy of The Problem of Pain in 1998.

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