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Could anyone please tell me what book CS Lewis wrote *This* in??? (...)?
'Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.'
---CS Lewis
please tell me where did Lewis write this in, thank you!!!.
.LM., 30, Mexico City
3 Answers
- kLv 47 years agoFavorite Answer
It was a quote of his, he had written it to Sister Penelope (who wrote many letters to him) after she wrote to him about a book called Out of a Silent Planet. You can find the letters in a book called The Collected letters of CS Lewis.
- RAY GLv 77 years ago
As others have said, it was in a letter to the nun Sister Penelope (9th July 1939)
But you've slightly misquoted it. He wrote "romance", not "fiction":
"Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under cover of romance without their knowing it."
- see The Quotable Lewis / #928 / page 379 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kO0JeQn2TxAC&pg...
- 7 years ago
He wrote it in a letter, here's a citation:
C. S. Letter to Sister Penelope, 9 July 1939, Letters of C. S. Lewis, pg. 167).
