This thinker argued that the numinous, the moral ought, and the moral guardian are the three strands of all religious impulse, but the fourth strand of the "historical event" is unique to Christianity.
This thinker argued that the numinous, the moral ought, and the moral guardian are the three strands of all religious impulse, but the fourth strand of the "historical event" is unique to Christianity. This thinker's argument that naturalism is self-defeating led to a 1948 debate at the Oxford Socratic Club with G.E.M. Anscombe about his book, Miracles. He claimed that Christianity is the story of a rightful king arriving incognito in enemy-occupied territory to fight the devil in a lecture titled (*) "What Christians Believe". He borrowed from Vincentius of Lerins the concept of reducing Christianity to only those principles that were believed "always, everywhere, by everybody", and he adapted a term from Richard Baxter to describe that form of Christianity. The argument that Jesus was either a lunatic, a fiend, or the Son of God is this man's "trilemma", which he presented in a series of BBC radio broadcasts delivered during World War II. For 10 points, name this English Christian apologist of The Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity. 
This thinker argued that the numinous, the moral ought, and the moral guardian are the three strands of all religious impulse, but the fourth strand of the "historical event" is unique to Christianity.
C(live) S(taples) Lewis