![]() ![]() Kevin DeYoung, blogger, author and senior pastor of University Reformed Church in Lansing, Mich., sees “two significant problems” with Mere Christianity. ![]() More than 50 years later, Lewis still receives mixed commendation. ![]() “Most evangelicals enjoyed Lewis’s work and acknowledge especially his tremendous contribution in exposing the superficialities of many intellectual unbelievers,” he writes. In the same essay, Douglas notes Lewis’ wide celebration among evangelicals and even credits Lewis with making “righteousness readable.” Douglas paraphrases Lloyd-Jones, saying Lewis’ view of salvation was “defective in two key respects: (1) Lewis taught and believed that one could reason oneself into Christianity and (2) Lewis was an opponent of the substitutionary and penal theory of the Atonement.” ![]() Less than a month after Lewis’ death in November 1963, a writer for Christianity Today cited English pastor Martyn Lloyd-Jones - who was a friend of Lewis’ - as an evangelical with “reservations” about Lewis.ĬT writer J.D. ![]()
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