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Mere Christianity

42.9% complete
1943
2009
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Preface - Preface
Book I - RIGHT AND WRONG AS A CLUE TO THE MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE
1 - The Law of Human Nature
2 - Some Objections
3 - The Reality of the Law
4 - What Lies Behind the Law
5 - We Have Cause to Be Uneasy
BOOK II - WHAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVE
1 - The Rival Conceptions of God
2 - The Invasion
3 - The Shocking Alternative
4 - The Perfect Penitent
5 - The Practical Conclusion
BOOK II - CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOUR
1 - The Three Parts of Morality
2 - The "Cardinal Virtues"
3 - Social Morality
4 - Morality and Psychoanalysis
5 - Sexual Morality
6 - Christian Marriage
7 - Forgiveness
8 - The Great Sin
9 - Charity
10 - Hope
11 - Faith
12 - Faith
BOOK IV - BEYOND PERSONALITY: OR FIRST STEPS IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY
1 - Making and Begetting
2 - The Three-Personal God
3 - Time and Beyond Time
4 - Good Infection
5 - The Obstinate Toy Soldiers
6 - Two Notes
7 - Let's Pretend
8 - Is Christianity Hard or Easy?
9 - Counting the Cost
10 - Nice People or New Men
11 - The New Men
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Copyright 1943, 1945, 1952 by Macmillan Publishing Company, a division of Macmillan, Inc.
Every one has heard people quarrelling.
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But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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I picked this up while I was reading the Star Wars book Vision of the Future.
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I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.  That is the one thing we must not say.  A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.  He would either be a lunatic - on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell.  You must make your choice.  Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.  You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher.  He has not left that open to us.  He did not intend to.

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 16-Apr-1986
Collier Books
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Date Issued:
16-Apr-1986
Cover Price:
$7.95
Pages*:
175
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Internal ID:
1470
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ISBN:
0-020-86940-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-020-86940-5
Country:
United States
Language:
English
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Marshall - Cover Design
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MERE CHRISTIANITY

First broadcast as informal radio "talks" and later published as three separate books.  The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality are presented together in Mere Christianity.  In his remarkably  direct and accessible style, the renowned Christian apologist shows how the power of Christianity manifests itself - not in any single denomination but as "mere" Christianity, a total force.  For Lewis sets out to prove only that "in the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergencies of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice."

"Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way." - Anthony Burgess, The New York Times Book Review

"The point about reading C. S. Lewis is that he makes you sure, whatever you believe, that religion accepted or rejected means something extremely serious, demanding the entire energy of the mind." - Harpers

"If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels." - The New Yorker

"A legacy of solid, genial Christianity." - Commonweal

C. S. Lewis was a professor at Cambridge and Oxford universities.  His other bestselling books include The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Space Trilogy, all available from Collier Books.
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C S Lewis  
Birth: 29 Nov 1898 Belfast, Ireland
Death: 22 Nov 1963 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Notes:
C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898.  His parents were Albert Lewis and Flora Hamilton Lewis and he had an older brother named  Warren Hamilton Lewis.  His mother died of cancer in 1908 and shortly after her death the C.S. Lewis and his brother were sent to boarding school in England.  The school closed in 1910, and he returned to Ireland.  Later he was sent back to England to study.  Lewis learned to love poetry and he also had an interest in modern languages.  He learned and mastered French, German and Italian.

In 1916 Lewis was accepted at University College, at Oxford University.  Just after he entered University Lewis chose to volunteer for duty in World War I.  When the war ended, Lewis returned to Oxford and resumed his studies.  In 1925 Lewis was elected to a teaching post in English at Magdalen College, Oxford.  He evendtually became a professor of medieval and renaissance literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1955.

He started writing while at Magdalen College and his first major work, The Pilgrim's Regress, was about his coming to Christ.  Lewis also wrote the popular children's novels about Narnia.

After his wife Joy Gresham died in 1960, Lewis's health began to deteriorate.  In 1963 he resigned from Cambridge.  He died on November 22, 1963.

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