CS Lewis Hidden Worldview

Everyone has a worldview, whether we take it into consideration or not. We become caught or lost in some train of thought because our worldviews are often hidden as a result of. CS Lewis takes a journey with his faith and he begins to notice his own worldview made a turn for the best. C.S. Lewis left his childhood Christian faith to spend years as a determined atheist. After finally admitting God existed, Lewis gave in and knelt in prayer to become what he described later as “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” This in itself, was a hidden worldview that made CS Lewis begin to step back and look at the big picture. During this play, the actor reenacted Lewis’s life, and how is journey took off. His long journey away from, and back to, faith began with his mother’s death from cancer when he was a boy. Disillusioned that God had not healed his mother, Lewis set out on a path toward full-bodied rationalism and atheism. The journey of C.S. Lewis, perhaps is

In the book “Hidden Worldview,” by Wilkens and Sanford, we begin to step into the bigger picture of our core beliefs and values. The inner circle is story, “the central narrative of our life.” Following this is identity, “how we see ourselves and present ourselves to others.” Next is the convictions, “those beliefs that make up how reality works for us(Wilkens and Sanford).” Flowing out of that is values or ethics, “what we believe we should do and what we take to be our highest priorities.” All of these play a major role in how we perceive life and how we interact as human beings. That being said, we can find individual beliefs that CS Lewis had. Individualism is “the individual is the primary reality” is a hidden worldview that is not that hidden in American evangelicalism. Lewis found irony in the dichotomy of exalted individualism as society became more collective in its political direction “individual rights and equality for