I have been perusing a book lent to me with the above intriguing title (2008). It has been authored by an English senior psychiatrist, Dr Gaius Davies. He has done detailed studies on Christians well-known to most who although highly gifted in certain areas suffered from moderate to more extreme cases of what we would call mental-emotional disorders. To carry out this task Davies examines the lives of Martin Luther (Protestant Reformer), John Bunyan (prolific writer), William Cowper (hymn writer), Lord Shaftesbury (social reformer), Christina Rossetti (poet), Frances R. Havergal (hymn writer), Gerard Manley Hopkins (poet), Amy Carmichael (missionary to India), C.S. Lewis (literary academic, apologist, extraordinary writer and poet), J.B. Philips (New Testament paraphraser), and Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (preacher). The treatment of Lewis' life by Davies is enlightening but I was particularly struck by the description given of Lewis in arguing against Naturalism opposed to E...
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