Theism and Humanism: The Book That Influenced C. S. Lewis

In 1962, Christian Century asked the well-known Christian writer, C. S. Lewis to name the books that had most influenced his thought. Among the ten that Lewis listed was Arthur J. Balfour's 1915 Theism and Humanism. This wasn't a passing whim. Almost twenty years earlier, in 1944, Lewis had written in "Is Theology Poetry" that Theism was 'a book too little read.' Unfortunately, until now it hasn't been that easy to find a copy. Except for a brief reprinting in the 1970s, copies are only ava...