“And there I made a new friend. The very first words he spoke marked him out from the ten or twelve others who were present; a man after my own heart…” Note that Lewis uses the word heart, not mind. And their minds certainly differed; Neville Coghill, a brilliant student, was Christian. “I soon had the shock,” Lewis reveals, “of discovering that he—clearly the most intelligent and best-informed man in that class-was a Christian and thorough-going supernaturalist.” Shock, indeed. How could someone so informed choose to accept something so implausible as that mythology of Jesus Christ?
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