Lionel Lisle

Lionel Lisle is a little-known 19th-century author whose name is now chiefly associated with The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of Its Own Rules. Project Gutenberg lists that work under his name, and the text itself shows it was published in London in 1877.

The book takes a questioning, argumentative approach to Christian evidence, especially miracle stories and other supernatural claims. In its prefatory material, Lisle presents the work as something meant to help readers wrestling with religious doubt, which gives his writing a personal as well as polemical tone.

Beyond that book, reliable biographical details about Lisle are hard to confirm from the sources I found. No trustworthy portrait page or clear biographical record turned up, so his public profile today seems to survive more through the ideas in his writing than through much documented information about his life.