The Reluctant Convert Who Was Already Pursued

In 1929, C. S. Lewis sat in his rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford, convinced that God was closing in on him. He had spent years building intellectual fortifications against faith — philosophy, mythology, pure reason — yet something kept dismantling them from the inside. Fellow scholars like J. R. R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson chipped away at his defenses during late-night walks along Addison's Walk.…