The late Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, a respected Calvinist theologian opined in Christianity Today, Dec. 20, 1963, that C.S. Lewis's view of salvation was "defective" because Lewis "was an opponent of the substitutionary and penal theory of the Atonement." Lloyd-Jones would have the very same criticism of Orthodox theology as represented by such theologians as Vladimir Lossky John Romanides and Christos Yannaras. The Protestant and Roman Catholic penal theory of the atonement and its associated understanding of a penal hell is denied by the Orthodox and C.S. Lewis. See [http://aggreen.net/beliefs/heaven_hell.html "Heaven & Hell in the Afterlife, According to the Bible."] See also the popular lecture [http://www.stnectariospress.com/parish/river_of_fire.htm "The River of Fire."]

Several other evangelicals became cognizant that Lewis's approach was different from theirs: A. N. Wilson asserted: "If the mark of a reborn evangelical is a devotion to the Epistles of Paul and, in particular, to the doctrine of Justification by Faith, then there can have been few Christian converts less evangelical than Lewis." J. I. Packer complained of Lewis’s "failure ever to mention justification by faith when speaking of the forgiveness of sins." Orthodoxy does not believe in "Justification by Faith" in the sense spoken of by these men. The Greek term for justification (dikaiosunee) is not understood by Eastern theologians to mean being pardoned of one's sins. This justice is understood as applying to the concepts of ''actual'' (rather than imputed) righteousness, virtue, and morality. Other Protestants who finally realize the unconventional doctrines what Lewis was teaching announce saying boldly declare that Lewis will be damned for his universalist theological tinkering. See [http://www.trinityfoundation.org/PDF/205a-DidCS.LewisGotoHeaven.pdf Did CS Lewis Go to Heaven?] Of course, as we have seen, Lewis would have welcomed this divine punishment because he trusted it to be purgatorial rather than penal.