MERE CHRISTIANITY: The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour & Beyond Personality
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Mere Christianity is a theological book and is considered a classic of Christian apologetics, the transcripts of the broadcasts originally appeared in print as three separate pamphlets: The Case for Christianity (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944). Lewis, an Anglican, intended to describe the Christian common ground. In Mere Christianity, he aims at avoiding controversies to explain fundamental teachings of Christianity, for the sake of those basically educated as well as the intellectuals of his generation, for whom the jargon of formal Christian theology did not retain its original meaning. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
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C. S. Lewis. MERE CHRISTIANITY: The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour & Beyond Personality
MERE CHRISTIANITY: The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour & Beyond Personality
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Table of Contents
Preface
Book I. Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe
Chapter 1. The Law of Human Nature
Chapter 2. Some Objections
Chapter 3. The Reality of the Law
Chapter 4. What Lies Behind the Law
Chapter 5. We Have Cause to be Uneasy
Book II. What Christians Believe
Chapter 1. The Rival Conceptions of God
Chapter 2. The Invasion
Chapter 3. The Shocking Alternative
Chapter 4. The Perfect Penitent
Chapter 5. The Practical Conclusion
Book III. Christian Behaviour
Chapter 1. The Three Parts of Morality
Chapter 2. The “Cardinal Virtues”
Chapter 3. Social Morality
Chapter 4. Morality and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 5. Sexual Morality
Chapter 6. Christian Marriage
Chapter 7. Forgiveness
Chapter 8. The Great Sin
Chapter 9. Charity
Chapter 10. Hope
Chapter 11. Faith
Chapter 12. Faith
Book IV. Beyond Personality: Or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity
Chapter 1. Making and Begetting
Chapter 2. The Three-Personal God
Chapter 3. Time and Beyond Time
Chapter 4. Good Infection
Chapter 5. The Obstinate Toy Soldiers
Chapter 6. Two Notes
Chapter 7. Let’s Pretend
Chapter 8. Is Christianity Hard or Easy?
Chapter 9. Counting the Cost
Chapter 10. Nice People or New Men
Chapter 11. The New Men