Carlos's comments (member since Mar 10, 2009)

Carlos's comments from the Christian Readers group.

You had to limit it only to three! That's tough.

I would have to start with Jacques Maritain. His book "Integral Humanism" really changed my worldview.

Second would be George Weigel. He has a real good grasp of current affairs and politics and is able to analyse them through Christian worldview, especially through the lens of the social teaching of the Catholic Church.

Lastly, and this was a tough choice, Luke Timothy Johnson. A great Biblical scholar, able to use the best of modern scholarship faithfully in tune with the tradition of the Church.

Just a word on C.S. Lewis. He is not in my top three only because he never really helped me to gain new insights. I still admire him greatly, particularly his fiction. What I really find admirable about him is that he was able to write both fiction and non-fiction. That is not an easy feat. However I would not go so far as to call him a theologian. Technically, he wasn't. He was a medievalist. But he was also a great Christian apologist, probably the greatest this century has ever known.