Thoughts upon reading Confessions, Mere Christianity, and The Imitation of Christ

I've read a number* of Christian personal narratives recently, so I feel very qualified to opine in a very general way about how Christian intellectuals think and write. The books were The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, The Confessions of St. Augustine, and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

And what I find fascinating about all these books is tha…