Surprised by Similarity: CS Lewis and Thomas Merton on the Self
Although they never met or even corresponded, the Anglican professor C.S. Lewis and Trappist monk Thomas Merton nevertheless wrote in strikingly similar ways about what they called the "true self" and the "false self." This presentation by John Gillespie, Ph.D., San Jacinto College Professor of History and English, explores the ways in which these two influential Christian thinkers wrote about human identity, the way we often think about ourselves, and our place in the world.