An edition of Mere Christianity (1943)

Mere Christianity

A revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour and Beyond Personality

1st HarperCollins ed.
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An edition of Mere Christianity (1943)

Mere Christianity

A revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour and Beyond Personality

1st HarperCollins ed.
  • 4.4 (41 ratings) ·
  • 503 Want to read
  • 40 Currently reading
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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." - Back cover.

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2009, HarperCollins
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Book Details


First Sentence

"Every one has heard people quarreling."

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: London : G. Bles, 1952.

Published in
San Francisco
Genre
Popular works.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
230
Library of Congress
BT77 .L348 2001, BT77.L348 2001, BR123 .L484 2000

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xx, 227 p.
Number of pages
227
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6789552M
Internet Archive
merechristianity0000lewi
ISBN 10
0060652926
ISBN 13
9780060652920
LCCN
00049862
OCLC/WorldCat
45188999
Library Thing
1595966
Goodreads
11137

Excerpts

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 patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
Page 54, added by Robin Lionheart.

Lewis's famous false trilemma

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