Getting some help: C.S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers

Getting some help: C. S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers

After an initial period as an atheist, Lewis developed a faith in God in 1930 and moved towards a definite Christian commitment late in 1931. As he began to explore his faith he clearly gave some thought to the idea of the Trinity, as is evident in a letter of 1934 to the American philosopher Paul Elmer More (1864 –1937).5 For Lewis, the doctrine of the Trinity allows us to affirm the transcendence of God without implying that God is ‘the immobile, the unanswering’. He believes that ‘the huge historic fact of the doctrine of the Trinity’ sets out a vision of an eternal and perfect God who enters history as ‘a purposing, feeling, and finally crucified Man in a particular place and time’. It is an appropriate and helpful way of expressing the core intuitions about God that lie at the heart of the Christian faith…