At Arm’s Length

Though he held his atheism withrncomplete conviction, Lewis-the-youthful-rnpersecutor-of-Christians seems to bernentirely a creation of his later years. Hisrnheathenism was a rhetorical ploy to put arnhuman face on his uncompromising andrnunconditional apologetics. As his friendrnand confessor, Austin Farrer, was laterrnto say, the persona Lewis as authorrnchose . . .