David J. Theroux Founder and President, The Independent Institute; Founder and President, C.S. Lewis Society of California

C.S. Lewis Memorial Stone, Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey, London

1. Lewis showed that reason is the anchor of faith. 2. Lewis punctured the pomposity and the pretension of modern elite intellectuals. 3. Lewis noted that “Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” 4. Lewis restored a Christian vision of humanity—the eternal destiny of every human being.

C.S. Lewis at Age 8 (1906)Albert Lewis and son C.S. Lewis

Phantastes George MacDonald

J.R.R. Tolkien G.K. Chesterton

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” —C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man

Rodney Stark

“Tao” (natural law)

“Indeed when Gentiles do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.” —Romans 2:14-15 Apostle Paul

Moral Relativism and Utilitarianism

Scientism

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” —Richard Dawkins

“If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motion of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.” —J.B.S. Haldane

Collectivism and Statism

Individual Liberty

Conclusion