In the Highest Degree: Volume One (C. S. Lewis: Revelation and the Christ)

The theological and philosophical works of C. S. Lewis were grounded in the argument from reason. As such reason is a form of revelation that predates nature and relates to the divine: the Word of God Christ the Logos. These essays provide some understanding of the essentials to Lewiss philosophical theology that is the essentia in the highest degree. Lewiss corpus can seem disparate but here we find unity in his aims objectives and methodology a consistency that demonstrates the deep roots of his philosophical theology in Scripture in Greek philosophy patristic and medieval theology and in some of the Reformers all framed by a reasoned discipline from a perceptive and critical mind: method and form; content and reason--for the glory of God. Here is the essentia of Lewiss thinking. From an analysis of reason through a theoretically unified proposition for atonement to the evidence of Christ as the light of the world across human endeavors and religions to a doctrine of election to an understanding of Scripture to the Philosophy of the Incarnation (as Lewis termed it) through fundamental arguments with various modern/liberal theologians we find evidence for the actuality of the incarnation: the divinity of Christ.