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The late Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, a respected Calvinist theologian who had the opportunity to speak personally with Lewis about these matters and who was critical of Lewis, said 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 also have the ''very same'' sharp criticism of such modern Orthodox theologians as Vladimir Lossky and Christos Yannaras, and such ancient Orthodox theologians such as St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. Athanasius. Lloyd-Jones's novel penal theory of the atonement and its associated understanding of a penal hell is taught by Roman Catholics and Protestants but is still denied by the Orthodox and C.S. Lewis.

Lewis had occasion to visit Greece and visit Orthodox churches there. C.S. Lewis has been quoted as saying that of all the liturgies he'd ever attended, Lewis preferred the Greek Orthodox liturgy to anything that he had seen in the West, Protestant or Roman Catholic. Lewis also claimed that of all the priests and monks that he had ever had the opportunity to meet, the Orthodox priests were the holiest, most spiritual men he had ever met. Lewis was also a sacramentalist, stating in ''Mere Christianity'' that: "There are three things that spread the Christ-life to us: baptism, belief, and that mysterious action which different Christians call by different names -- Holy Communion, the Mass, the Lord's Supper."