How to Stay Human: C.S. Lewis on the Doctrine of Man

ABSTRACT: C.S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man and Ransom Trilogy offer unique insights for Christians aiming to recover a biblical anthropology amid a secular society. In these works, Lewis demonstrates the futility of mankind’s pursuit of self-determination — a pursuit that subverts the foundations of goodness, truth, and beauty (what Lewis calls the “Tao”) while also depending on those foundations for any sense of coherence. At the same time, he points the way toward the anthropological rescue we ne