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Hard Hearts and Soft Heads: C. S. Lewis’ Prophetic Abolition of Man

In my second semester of seminary—fall 2011—I took a course called “Classics of Christian Devotion.” The instructor for the class was my future doctoral advisor, Chris Chun. One of our first assignments was to read a 1944 essay by C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) called, “On the Reading Old Books.” In the essay, Lewis makes the case for reading books that have withstood…

Chimps, Courts, and the Religious Nature of Being Human

Nearly 500 years ago, the Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingli made an insightful observation in his Commentary on True and False Religion when he wrote, “There is no difference between the life of man and that of the beasts if you take away the knowledge of God.” Zwingli observed an essential relationship between knowledge of God and being human. Zwingli’s contemporary, John Calvin…