The Problem of Pain

by C.S. Lewis

Either he was a raving lunatic of an unusually abominable type, or else He was, and is, precisely what He said.

Christianity is not the conclusion of a philosophical debate on the origins of the universe: it is a catastrophic historical event following on the long spiritual preparation of humanity

pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.

remain a barbarian, worshipping sexuality, or the dead, or the life-force, or the future.