Abstract
C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces serves as a response to Augustine's Confessions in two ways. Firstly, Orual (the main character of the novel) is writing her own confession, at first as a repudiation of the gods or anti-confession, later in faith, like Augustine. She writes of running away from the gods, seeing herself set up before a mirror, and loving her sister Psyche wrongly in ways reminiscent of Augustine's life, especially his love for his friend who dies. When that love is corrected, both Augustine and Orual learn to love others in God, bringing them to him. Secondly, Lewis offers a correction of Augustine by showing how he believes that pagan gods are not demons who point away from Christ, but actually can serve as signposts directing toward him, both for ancient pagans who might come to faith and for modern Christians who might love pagan myth.