Which university awarded C.S. Lewis an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1943?

The University of St Andrews awarded C.S. Lewis an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1943.

St Andrews conferred the honorary degree on Lewis during the period when his public reputation as a Christian writer was rapidly expanding. His wartime broadcasts for the BBC, later collected as Mere Christianity, had introduced his arguments about Christian belief to a wide British audience.

The award was honorary rather than a degree earned through a conventional programme of theological study. Lewis was primarily a literary scholar and writer, and his academic career was in English literature. His public work nevertheless made him an important twentieth-century Christian apologist.

Lewis later held university positions at Oxford and Cambridge, which can make university facts about him easy to mix up. He was a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 1954 became Cambridge's first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English. St Andrews' honorary doctorate belongs to 1943.