C. S. Lewis made the trilemma (“Liar, Lunatic, Lord”) well known and popular, but it did not start with him. The trilemma has some quite interesting predecessors in history. With the rise of critical scholarship, some have argued that the trilemma is no longer valid as such. In this workshop, we trace the history of the trilemma before C. S. Lewis to the present day and assess whether it is still useful and what kind of “tweaks” might be needed for it to be still a valid apologetic tool.
