But how you can say he is on the Evangelical/Methodist continuum perplexes me. What Evangelical or Methodist did you ever meet that believed in either Purgatory or the Real Presence? My dear grandfather-in-law was a Methodist minister, and either of those doctrines would have curled his hair. And Lewis as an Evangelical is about as likely as Anthony Trollope as one. I would think the shadowy Presbyterianism of the Church of Ireland a far more likely influence on his Anglicanism (especially after reading The Pilgrim's Regress).
First of all, I don’t believe that he actually believed in purgatory although he did mention it in one of his books. His last book was written with a totally pagan context, and yet I don’t believe that he was promoting paganism. I think that people read way too much in his fictional writings. I went to Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge and later to St.Chad college in Durham, which is a college for Anglican priests. There are many Anglicans, especially the Anglo-Catholics, that believe in transubstantiation and purgatory. I have also known Anglicans that were strict Calvinist and would not be caught dead in a cathedral. You have to understand that Anglicanism is so theologically broad that you can believe anything that you want. I know of an Anglican priest in Northumbria that is an atheist. Anglicans group themselves according to their liturgical practices: the low and lazy, broad and hazy, and high and crazy. The low church group reminds me of a typical Methodist worship service. From what his former students told me, he preferred worshiping in the chapel at Magdelene than the Cathedral. Magdelene was a sort of low church college. Lewis did find the cathedral at Durham inspiring, and it is. There is nothing like worshiping in a thousand year old Romanesque Cathedral. Sadly, only a handful of people are there on Sunday. I’m not even Anglican, and I never missed evensong or Sunday service.