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Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation. Volume I: Human Nature

it. Only the man whose loyalty is rooted far below the surface breezes – the passing doubts of mood or vogue – can happily make jokes about his creed; can ‘jeer and flout’ carelessly, genially, at his self-confident ease. And, further, he must have the story-teller’s gift and pen to allure even a reluctant reader to go reading on. More than half of Chesterton’s persuasive power lay in his skill to make us sure that the story of man’s salvation was lit with all the colours of a great romantic drama – a story rapid like a schoolboy’s ‘thriller’, full of danger and urgency and critical choices. Mr Lewis has a very different manner and method from the Chestertonian; his laughter is more subtle and demure, and his ironic tradition is rather that of Swift and Butler – a measure of his excellence being that one can set the three names side by side without absurdity. But we see in him many marks of the Jester-Apologist of true brand. He points epigrams for the pricking of bladders or the uncovering of shams with easy expertness; he knows his theology (it is professed students who will best appreciate his reflections upon natural pleasures, the delusion of human ‘ownership’, the ‘historical Jesus’), and his whole book is a picture in strong bright colours of the human soul as the centre of a cosmic conflict – terrible, dramatic, eternally significant. It is impossible not to hope that he will give us other (even ‘little’) books as tonic and enlightening as this one. Meanwhile he has temporarily solved two recurrent problems – what to read to retreatants at mealtimes (if reading there must be), and what to give the intelligentsia for Easter or Christmas presents.