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Mere Christianity »

Authors: C. S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris
ISBN-13: 9780060652920, ISBN-10: 0060652926
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis was famous both as a fiction writer and as a Christian thinker, and scholars sometimes divide his personality in two. Yet a large part of Lewis's appeal, for both his audiences, lay in his ability to fuse imagination with instruction. "Let the pictures tell you their own moral," he once advised writers of children's stories. "But if they don't show you any moral, don't put one in."

Book Synopsis

A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.

Times Literary Supplement

He has a unique power for making theology an attractive, exciting, and fascinating quest.

	Preface
	Foreword
Bk. 1	Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe
1	The Law of Human Nature	3
2	Some Objections	9
3	The Reality of the Law	16
4	What Lies Behind the Law	21
5	We Have Cause to Be Uneasy	28
Bk. 2	What Christians Believe
1	The Rival Conceptions of God	35
2	The Invasion	40
3	The Shocking Alternative	47
4	The Perfect Penitent	53
5	The Practical Conclusion	60
Bk. 3	Christian Behaviour
1	The Three Parts of Morality	69
2	The 'Cardinal Virtues'	76
3	Social Morality	82
4	Morality and Psychoanalysis	88
5	Sexual Morality	94
6	Christian Marriage	104
7	Forgiveness	115
8	The Great Sin	121
9	Charity	129
10	Hope	129
11	Faith	138
12	Faith	144
Bk. 4	Beyond Personality: Or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity
1	Making and Begetting	153
2	The Three-Personal God	160
3	Time and Beyond Time	166
4	Good Infection	172
5	The Obstinate Toy Soldiers	178
6	Two Notes	183
7	Let's Pretend	187
8	Is Christianity Hard or Easy?	195
9	Counting the Cost	201
10	Nice People or New Men	207
11	The New Men	218

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