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Christianity thinkers
C. S. Lewis Oxford and Cambridge literary scholar and Christian author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters and Narnia, and a defender of natural law. Eric Voegelin German-American political philosopher who analysed totalitarianism as a political religion and warned against immanentizing the eschaton. G. K. Chesterton English journalist, novelist and Catholic apologist, creator of Father Brown, whose Orthodoxy defended tradition, common sense and widespread property. Joseph de Maistre Savoyard diplomat and counter-revolutionary philosopher, a founder of European conservatism with Burke, who defended throne and altar against the Enlightenment. Lord Acton English Catholic historian and liberal politician remembered for the warning that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Michael Novak Catholic philosopher and diplomat whose The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism argued that free economies rest on moral and religious foundations. Whittaker Chambers Former Soviet underground courier turned Time editor and National Review writer whose memoir Witness became a founding text of Cold War conservatism.