Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic)

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I have given six or seven copies to my friends who have been anxious to know the answers, not pushed at them , they wanted to find out! Having sold over half a million copies in the UK alone, his overview of Christianity has been imitated many time, but never bettered. Being a popular moralist, I also detected some arrogance in his pronouncements as if he knew everything about Christian Faith.

I'm half way through the book, but so far I'm further convinced that Jesus is my savior and that Christianity is right for me.His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. The talks remained popular and because of the success of the newly released The Screwtape Letters, Lewis’s publisher was happy to publish the broadcast talks as books that year. Myers of Theology Today noted, "This is clear, it is simple, it is eminently Christian, and it is typical of the ease with which Mr. It explains the sometimes difficult concepts and thoughts of Christianity in an accessible and easy to understand way. It is often used as an evangelistic tool, [46] predominantly in Christian-majority countries, including the United States, where its influence is most felt.

Some places still do things that we'd find pretty horrible, like slavery, but there is no societal pressure in those places to totally abandon it.

S. Lewis’s legendary radio broadcasts during the war years, in which he set out simply to ‘explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times’. He tries to argue that whereas “gentleman” once had wealth and class meaning, it now refers to behavior only, and the same is happening with the term “Christian.