The Question of God by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.

Nicholi teaches a course at Harvard Medical School about Freud and Lewis. This book is an outgrowth of years of presenting this course.

Though approaching the great questions of life from opposite directions, these two great men show interesting similarities.

We found the parts about Freud even more interesting since we knew less about him and though we agreed more with Lewis's views found Freud a surprisingly sympathetic figure.

Though Freud espoused sexual liberty, he himself lived a very conventional monogamous life. Freud suffered prejudice and racism. He lost many of his loved ones, including children, and he had a painful mouth cancer that tormented him for years, eventually causing his terminal illness. He died from physician-assisted suicide.

Lewis had suffered the early death of his mother. His father never recovered from her death. Lewis had extremely terrifying war experiences in the trenches of World War I.

May 2007