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This week in Christian history: CS Lewis dies, Geneva embraces Calvinism

By Michael Gryboski, Editor

C.S. Lewis dies – Nov. 22, 1963

Portrait of CS Lewis, age 50.
Portrait of CS Lewis, age 50. | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

This week marks the anniversary of when Clive Staples Lewis, the bestselling author, intellectual, professor and noted Christian apologist, died of kidney failure.

A veteran of World War I, Lewis had initially been a religious skeptic before gradually embracing Christianity as an adult.

Lewis had risen to international prominence due to his widely read books, which included The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity, among others.

Lewis also popularized the much-debated Trilemma argument about God, an argument originally from the 19th century which argued that Jesus had to be either a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord.

Lewis died on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and shortly after, famed science fiction author and philosopher Aldous Huxley also died.

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