In his teens, a young man wrote, ""I believe in no religion. There is
absolutely no proof for any of them."" After serving in the trenches of
WW1, the same young man said, ""I never sank so low as to pray."" To a
religious friend, he wrote impatiently, ""You can't start with God. I
don't accept God!"" This young man was C. S. Lewis, the ""foul-mouthed
atheist"" who would become one of the most eloquent Christian writers of
the twentieth century. David C. Downing offers a unique look at Lewis's
personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life
as a writer and eventual follower of Christ. This is the first book to
focus on the period from Lewis's childhood to his early thirties, a
tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration. It was not
despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood
the search for life's meaning so well.