Therefore, he divided natural human loves into two types Gift-love (which is God-like, because God is self-giving) and Need-love (which is unlike God, because God lacks nothing). She died just a few years later, in 1960, and Lewis followed her in 1963. When Lewis first set out to write about love, his thesis was God is love (as St. Later in life, Lewis married Joy Davidman Gresham, an American woman with whom he had corresponded. In 1954, Lewis became Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University’s Magdalene College. During World War II, he delivered a series of radio addresses that became the basis for his famous work of apologetics, Mere Christianity. Though Lewis had been a staunch atheist since his teen years, he became a Christian in 1931 and remained a committed member of the Church of England for the rest of his life. From 1925–1954, he taught English literature in Oxford’s Magdalen College. He was injured in 1918 and thereafter returned to Oxford, where he studied classics, philosophy, and English literature. Lewis entered Oxford University in 1916, but he was soon sent to France to fight in World War I. Within it, Lewis reveals the notion that love is not the single concept that we have turned it into.
Lewis loved spending time in his father’s massive library, and he lost his mother to cancer around the age of 10. Though Lewis writes his book with a Christian worldview and with Christian audiences mainly in mind, this is one of the more applicable of all Lewis books to a broad audience. Growing up, Lewis-who adopted the nickname “Jack” as a young boy-lived with his parents and brother Warren in East Belfast, in a house called Little Lea. S.) Lewis was born in Northern Ireland to Albert James Lewis, a solicitor, and Flora Lewis, the daughter of a Church of Ireland clergyman.
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