Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: cotner@oreo.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: C.S. Lewis and friends (was Re: Sorry folks, it's NOT all relative.) Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 90 12:29:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article crf@mace.princeton.edu (Charles Ferenbaugh) writes: > >In article you write: > >>On a related note, Does anyone know about any other Christian novelists/ >>Christian writers rather in the vein of C.S. Lewis? > >A good person to try is G.K. Chesterton. Most of his stuff was written 20 >or 30 years before Lewis, but the style is similar. G.K.C. is my favorite author, and I highly recommend him, too. Two more of his best are the biographies _St. Francis of Assisi_ and _Saint Thomas Aquinas "The Dumb Ox"_. The noted Thomist philosopher Etienne Gilson said of the later, "Chesterton makes one despair. I have been studying St. Thomas all my life and I could never have written such a book." I have never read any other biography which make its subject come alive as much as these two do. Carl Cotner cotner@math.berkeley.edu