The author did his best given the task he set for himself, that being trying to define the minimum doctrine that might represent as wide as spectrum of people professing faith in Jesus Christ. However he did not insist on sola fide and sola scriptura, so for all his effort he left real Christianity out of the discussion. Also, his latest revision was in the 1950s so both the building of the Berlin Wall and the final, absolute evidence of Marx and Engel's failure in the fall of said wall, not to mention the USSR's breakdown and dissolution, was not in evidence for Mr. Lewis so his positive view of Marxists being "advanced" he could not know was laughable. For his time though, Mr. Lewis provided Britain the encouragement they needed in their time of great crisis.

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