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Let me give you the bottom line right at the top: God in the Dock by C.S. Lewis is a challenging book, but it is so worth your time to work your way through it!
Sometimes I feel that Lewis is from a different planet that allows his mind to move so beyond the things the rest of us are observing. It reminds me a little of Edwin Abbott’s book Flatland where 3-dimensional Sphere is talking with 2-dimensional Square. Sphere can see so much more than Square can, but he is trying to describe it in terms that Square can grasp.
This is why I say that God in the Dock is a challenging read. The phrase “in the dock” is how the English would describe someone who is on trial, listening to the evidence against them and presenting evidence in their own favor. Imagine that Person on trial was God! As Lewis himself notes, “The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock.”
This book is made up of Lewis’ essays, responses to critical attacks on his other written works, conversations with atheists, and correspondence with people of all levels of society. His arguments are witty, biblical, philosophical, logical, sophisticated, and frequently other-worldly. This is why I said it is a challenge to keep up with his line of reason. But I promise you that those who persevere through this book will be the better for it.
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Craig T. Owens 