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What does Lewis mean when he speaks of a spectrum of goodness?
Are we truly capable of evil, or are our lives simply a range of better and worse choices?
** PART 2 of a 4-episode mini-series on C. S. Lewis with Professor Alister McGrath **

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In this episode of our four-part series on @cslewisofficials C. S. Lewis, Samuel Marusca and Oxford Professor Alister McGrath @alistermcgrathchristianthe1158 explore how Lewis came to be recognised as one of the most important Christian apologists of the twentieth century.

Lewis’s concern that modern culture and modern education increasingly treat morality as a spectrum of goodness, reluctant to speak of evil or to acknowledge that human beings themselves are capable of it. Drawing on 'The Abolition of Man', McGrath shows why Lewis believed that losing the language of evil distorts our understanding of human nature — and of what redemption really is.

Lewis did not set out to become an apologist. He was encouraged by others to write The Problem of Pain, addressing the question of suffering and belief, and this marked a turning point in his public role. During World War II, the BBC invited Lewis, as a layman, to give a series of short radio talks aimed at the general public. Broadcast just before the news to raise morale, these talks later became 'Mere Christianity'. Structured around the original talks, the book explains Christianity as a way of making sense of life and the world.

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