Conversion to Christianity for Lewis, in both The Pilgrim's Regress and Surprised by Joy, seems largely an intellectual process and an individual one at that. The other is that Romantic longing which drives the journey and which provokes hermeneutical and interpretative questions that remain important for our understanding of Romanticism and its place in the religious quest. One is the manner of the description of the journey - Lewis's rhetoric. My focus in this essay will be not so much with the theological destination of these narratives (although I touch on this occasionally), but rather with two subsidiary themes. Lewis provokes divided opinions and perhaps never more so than in two accounts of his conversion to Christianity, The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism (1933) and Surprised by Joy (1955).
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