Evidence for C.S. Lewis’ status as a prophet could be argued from two of his works, one of which is The Abolition of Man, written as a pamphlet in 1943. (The other work is a short essay entitled, “Priestesses in the Church?”, written in 1948, well before his Anglican Communion began ordaining women to the priesthood in the 1970’s). Lewis would, of course, utterly dismiss any suggestion that he was a prophet, and I use the term here very loosely. What is beyond dispute is that much of what Lewis (who died in 1963) predicted and feared has come to pass. In this brief essay I look a little more closely at the slim volume The Abolition of Man, for ...
