![]() ![]() It led many readers to reconsider their preconceptions about Christianity. Wilberforce asked unbelievers "one plain question" that was hard to dismiss. Like Lewis, Wilberforce had a gift for setting forth what biographer John Pollock calls "the intellectual heart of Christianity." ![]() ![]() As with Lewis' book, A Practical View eventually sold millions of copies. In 1797, 150 years before Lewis appeared on the cover of Time, the English anti-slavery reformer William Wilberforce published the Mere Christianity of his time: A Practical View of Christianity. The accompanying article declared him to be "one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world." The intervening years have only added to the belief that Lewis was the greatest apologist of the 20th century, and millions of lives have been changed by reading his Mere Christianity. Lewis's stature as an apologist was established when he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. ![]()
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