C S Lewis C S Lewis was one of this century's most successful apologists for Christianity.  An Oxford intellectual, he nevertheless was most successful in using the genre of fantasy to express Christian truth.

 

This is not surprising given that he attributed his own conversion to reading a fairytale. Whilst it did not even mention God, George MacDonald's Phantastes powerfully confronted him with a 'goodness' he had always yearned for.  As he put it, Phantastes 'baptised' his imagination, and he was subsequently dragged 'kicking and screaming' into the Kingdom of God. His autobiography 'Surprised by Joy' offers some profound insights into the little publicised, hidden riches of Christianity, the Virtues, and in particular 'goodness' and 'joy'.  He describes how his ill defined yet definite inner yearning for these transcendent 'Virtues' overwhelmed his atheisic aversion to things Christian, after being confronted by the clear evidence of their reality and habitat. He was, along with J R R Tolkein and others, one of the Votaries of the Blue Flower.