Mere Christianity

March, 2019

Mere Christianity, written by brilliant British author C.S. Lewis in 1952, is a compilation of a series of talks given on the BBC radio during World War Two, from London. Lewis strove to make the talks as interesting and captivating and unifying as possible, hoping to avoid squabbles between Christians, and appeal to non-Christians just as much. He touched on topics throughout the book that ranged from salvation, to the reason why we need salvation, to the human being and why they do what they do. “Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, the road back to God is a road of moral effort.” “What He is watching and waiting and working for is something that is not easy even for God, because, from the nature of the case, even He cannot produce it by a mere act of power. He is waiting and watching for it both in Miss Bates and Dick Firkin... Their free will is trembling inside them like the needle of a compass.” “The really tough work-- the bit we could not have done for ourselves-- has been done for us.” 

Lewis was a brilliant man with phenomenal ideas, and this book is just one of many that he has written. The Great Divorce is a uniquely amazing novel in particular.