Mere Christianity is a Christian apologetical book by the British author C. S. Lewis. It was adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944, originally published as three separate volumes: Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944). The book consists of four parts: the first presents Lewis's arguments for the existence of God; the second contains his defence of Christian theology, including his notable "Liar, lunatic, or Lord" trilemma; the third has him exploring Christian ethics, among which are cardinal and theological virtues; in the final, he writes on the Christian conception of God.
Mere Christianity was published in the United Kingdom by Geoffrey Bles on 7 July 1952. While initial reviews to the book were generally positive, modern reviewers were more critical of it, and its overall reception was relatively mixed. The praise was primarily directed to Lewis's humorous, straightforward style of writing; the criticism was primarily around the validity of his trilemma, which defends the Christian doctrine of the divinity of Jesus, and how he should have considered providing more choices.
Deemed a classic in Lewis's career and religious literature, Mere Christianity has often received a wide readership decades following its release, and contributed to establishing its author's reputation as "one of the most 'original' exponents of the Christian faith" in the 20th century. The work, with Lewis's arguments for God's existence in it, continued to be examined in scholarly circles. Mere Christianity has retained popularity among Christians from various denominations, and appeared in several lists of finest Christian books. Often used as a tool of evangelism, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and cited by a number of public figures as their influence to their conversion to Christianity. Several "biographies" of the book have also been written.
MereChristianity is a Christian apologetical book by the British author C. S. Lewis. It was adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941...
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today, such as Peter Kreeft and Francis Collins. C. S. Lewis, in MereChristianity and elsewhere, posed that all natural desires have a natural object...
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socialism and liberalism. Events ranged from mere anti-clericalism to violent outbursts against Christianity, such as the dechristianization of France during...
him that judged him justly" (1 Peter 2:23). C. S. Lewis writes, in MereChristianity, that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego...
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guide our actions, but it does not provide knowledge). In his book MereChristianity, C. S. Lewis argued that "conscience reveals to us a moral law whose...
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Hagia Sophia, Church of the Holy Wisdom". Touchstone: A Journal of MereChristianity. 34 (3): 54–55 – via Academic Search Premier. Cakmak, page 693 Maranci...
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with reference to Scotland." Simpson, Paul (2013). C.S. Lewis From MereChristianity to Narnia. London: Constable & Robinson. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-4721-0066-5...
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Lewis's life from very early childhood (born 1898) until his conversion to Christianity in 1931, but does not go beyond that date. The title comes from William...
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"the Enemy" (God). After the second letter, the Patient converts to Christianity, and Wormwood is chastised for allowing this. A striking contrast is...
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