MERE CHRISTIANITY: The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour & Beyond Personality. C. S. Lewis

       C. S. Lewis

      MERE CHRISTIANITY: The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour & Beyond Personality

      A Classic of Christian Apologetics and One of the Most Influential Books amongst Evangelicals

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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

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      The contents of this book were first given on the air, and then published in three separate parts as Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian Behaviour (1945), and Beyond Personality (1944). In the printed versions I made a few additions to what I had said at the microphone, but otherwise left the text much as it had been. A “talk” on the radio should, I think, be as like real talk as possible, and should not sound like an essay being read aloud. In my talks I had therefore used all the contractions and colloquialisms I ordinarily use in conversation. In the printed version I reproduced this, putting don’t and we’ve for do not and we have. And wherever, in the talks, I had made the importance of a word clear by the emphasis of my voice, I printed it in italics. I am now inclined to think that this was a mistake—an undesirable hybrid between the art of speaking and the art of writing. A talker ought to use variations of voice for emphasis because his medium naturally lends itself to that method: but a writer ought not to use italics for the same purpose. He has his own, different, means of bringing out the key words and ought to use them. In this edition I have expanded the contractions and replaced most of the italics by a recasting of the sentences in which they occurred: but without altering, I hope, the “popular” or “familiar” tone which I had all along intended. I have also added and deleted where I thought I understood any part of my subject better now than ten years ago or where I