“I am to talk about Apologetics. Apologetics means of course Defence. The first question is — what do you propose to defend? Christianity, of course…”

— Clive Staples Lewis , book God in the Dock

"Christian Apologetics" (1945), p. 89
God in the Dock (1970)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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