Perhaps no writer or thinker in the twentieth century has more lucidly grasped the great flaw of modern times – the failed promise of the enlightenment than C.S. Lewis. Here Peter Kreeft distills Lewis’s re­flections on the collapse of western civilization and the way to renew it.

Kreeft shows that Lewis offers deeply prophetic words for our time. Using The Abolition of Man as his focus point, Kreeft summarizes Lewis’s philosophy of history and evaluates our era from that standpoint; gives a defense of the Natural Law (or objective values) as the absolute sine qua non for the survival of civilization; summarizes Lewis’s refutation of the various possible alternatives to the Natural Law; and fleshes out Lewis’s hopeful conclusion in The Abolition of Man, a conclusion that gives a new and hu­mane world view for mankind. This book, like The Abolition of Man, offers real hope to all men of good will who are looking for light in our age of darkness.

  Peter Kreeft,  C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium, Ignatius Press