Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic)

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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.

Lewis talks about Christianity being a process of producing a particular kind of new man, instead of a group of people who follow a set of rules. The Times Literary Supplement wrote of Lewis's "quite unique power" of making theology interesting, even "exciting and (one might almost say) uproariously funny". When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.Mere Christianity brings together Lewis's legendary broadcast talks of the war years, talks in which he set out simply to 'explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times. I was aware of this book in my childhood but never read it until now, because I'm working with two C. There must be something unnatural about the rule of wives over husbands, because the wives themselves are half ashamed of it and despise the husbands whom they rule.

There is almost no real reason to even read the last chapter as this point really kills anything he might say in the last chapter anyway. In this book, he chronicles his journey from devout atheist to committed Christian, recounting each step with his original assumption, then recording his intellectual journey through each idea to it's end result.

As an intellectual and former atheist, he argues powerfully each and every reason why Christianity is true both from a philosophical and from a biblical point of view. Does he not say essentially that the evidence for moral law comes from our ability to know right from wrong? This same thought process carries through with every single point encountered defining Christian teachings. Over a period of twenty years he has written a score of books stimulating thought on the practice of religion in everyday life and on its appearance to the problems of twentieth century man and woman. God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.

Some of them, which seemed to me compelling at the time, now seem too simplistic, admitting of only a few possible arguments. He never felt the obligation to discuss alternatives (unless you count his saying materialism is everything at random is another “explanation” of something). I was talking to my father the other day when I said that "I think the funny thing to me about most academics at University, is that they so completely misunderstand Christianity.

Being a popular moralist, I also detected some arrogance in his pronouncements as if he knew everything about Christian Faith. The religious worldview holds that there's some sort of being, or force out there that created everything like matter, with a purpose. Not only will you gain a new appreciation for Lewis' pure genius in both writing and Christianity, but you will also walk away from this book with a better understanding of things every believer should know and with an increased knowledge of how to better your walk with God and live a life that is in harmony with both God and man, a life that is pleasing to Him. It's one of my favorites, because the misrepresentation of Christianity in the media and by people who hardly understand it has been a source of frustration for me throughout the majority of my life.