C.S. Lewis: new twentieth century christian writer

Abstract

This monograph aims to reflect the reality about religion from the point of view of C.S. Lewis who analyzes the differences between Christianity and Catholicism in two of his remarkable fantasy novels: The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia. To achieve our purpose, scenes and characters presented in Lewis’s works were compared to those in the passages of the Holy Bible: Screwtape, Wormwood, Aslan, among others. Some chapters of the novels, especially The Chronicles of Narnia, reveal the author’s life. This work must therefore be considered a starting point to know C.S. Lewis and his Christian Literature, in which the most relevant parts of the Holy Scriptures, through metaphorical events expose human beings’ faults and the way God makes His sons regret their acts. In The Screwtape Letters,the Christian doctrine of mortal sin is explained in the context of the Catholic system of penance. On the other hand, The Chronicles of Narnia have to do with the early stages of his life which have greatly influenced the seven books of the saga. The struggle between God and Satan is regarded by Lewis as an important aspect to be analyzed by human beings, considering religion a tool that has been used for doing good and evil, since many movements have taken religion as the only way to approach God, sometimes not in an appropriate way.