The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) invited Lewis to speak about the Christian faith to a war-torn country that was being bombarded by 400 planes every night and had lost an entire generation of men just 24 years earlier in World War I. The foreword explains that the content of the book was actually a series of radio broadcasts that C.S. So here's a little intro and some information to help you decide if this is something you'd like to read for yourself, but if you're even remotely considering it, I say jump on board! There are 33 chapters in the book, so I'm going to combine the first two and the two separate chapters on Faith to make it 31 posts. Since I recently completed a 31 day series of writing, I had it in mind to do something similar with this. It was great though, and I decided to go through it again, but this time I thought I'd do a series on the blog that explores the book and breaks it down chapter by chapter.
But he says plenty about each topic, and I think a lot of it flew right over my head the first time I read it. It's not an incredibly lengthy book, 227 pages in my edition. The chapters are short, only 5-7 pages really. After reading Tim Keller's The Meaning of Marriage (which quotes Lewis all throughout), I knew I wanted to mark Mere Christianity off of my list. Lewis, and it always makes me feel a little more intelligent when I actually understand what I'm reading. I have gone through the Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Space Trilogy, and now Mere Christianity, which is surprisingly only a small fraction of all of the books he has actually written, but I always feel like I'm doing something worthwhile when I read a book by C.S. If you've never read any of Lewis' nonfiction works, they are a little more challenging and mentally exhausting than his fiction writings. This past summer I picked up the book Mere Christianity by C.S. The Law of Human Nature (and) Some Objectionsīook Four: Beyond Personality or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity īook One: Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universeġ.
I have updated this section with all the links, so this post provides not only an introduction and background/context for the book (see section below this outline), but it is also a landing page for all of the content of the 31-day series. Here is the layout of the entire 31 days and what each day's post covered.
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