WAS C.S. LEWIS A DELUDED ROMAN CATHOLIC?
Lewis’s Heresies
Christianity Today noted that he was “a man whose theology had decidedly unevangelical elements” (CT, Sept. 7, 1998).
He believed in purgatory, confessed his sins to a priest, and had the last rites performed by a Catholic priest (C.S. Lewis: A Biography, pp. 198, 301).
He received the Catholic sacrament of last rites on July 16, 1963.
Lewis rejected the doctrine of bodily resurrection (Biblical Discernment Ministries Letter, Sept.-Oct. 1996).
He believed there is salvation in pagan religions.
Lewis denied the total depravity of man and the substitutionary atonement of Christ.
He believed in theistic evolution and rejected the Bible as the infallible Word of God.
He denied the biblical doctrine of an eternal fiery hell, claiming, instead, that hell is a state of mind: “And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind—is, in the end, Hell” (Lewis, The Great Divorce, p. 65).
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