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Peter Kreeft on C.S. Lewis - by Jedd Medefind:

"What gives Lewis' writings their remarkable staying power? Is there something Lewis offers that modern Christian thinkers lack?

The question has two parts: what does Lewis have and what do most modern Christian writers lack?

My answer is that my own question gets it wrong. It's what Lewis lacks and modern writers have that makes the difference. Most Christian writers today want to be up to date, relevant, speaking to their generation, useful, etc. They want to be creative and original. And they end up saying the same things and going out of date very quickly. Lewis just tells the truth as he sees it, and ends up being original. He is totally uninterested in 'marketing,' in intellectual economics. He does what Thoreau advises: 'Read not the Times, read the eternities.' Chesterton says if you marry the spirit of the times you will soon become a widower. If you seek and find and communicate 'the permanent things,' you are permanently relevant."