Lewis's “deep magic” in the news
Commenting on the current situation in the worldwide Anglican church, SMH writer Julia Baird finds wisdom in Lewis's “deep magic”. Here she speaks to Greg Clarke, Director of the Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education and member of the C.S. Lewis Today Conference Committee:
Greg Clarke, a Christian academic from New College, UNSW, is one of the conference organisers. He says Lewis puts the squabbles of the church in perspective: “He made Christianity reasonable when it did not seem reasonable. He skates across the divide somehow so that we focus on Jesus, our own standing before God and our love for each other—I think that's why he is so attractive.”
The best way to describe what Lewis is about, Clarke says, is the fulfilment of deep longings: “He finds these fulfilled ultimately in Christ, not because he opposes all the old myths but because he fulfils them—our desire for mercy and justice, to love another person, for deep magic in the world.”
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