Mere Christianity
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- ISBN: 0061350214 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780061350214 : HRD
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Physical Description:
xxiii, 328 p. :
Book{B}
print - Publisher: New York : HarperOne, [2012], c1952.
Content descriptions
General Note: | C.S. Lewis ; foreword by Douglas Gresham.ill. ;22 cm.Summary: Contents: Book 1. Right and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe. The law of human nature ; Some objections ; The reality of the law ; What lies behind the law ; We have cause to be uneasy --Book 2. What Christians believe. The rival conceptions of God ; The invasion ; The shocking alternative ; The perfect penitent ; The practical conclusion --Book 3. Christian behaviour. The three parts of morality ; The "cardinal virtues" ; Social morality ; Morality and psychoanalysis ; Sexual morality ; Christian marriage ; Forgiveness ; The great sin ; Charity ; Hope ; Faith ; Faith (cont.) --Book 4. Beyond personality: or first steps in the doctrine of the trinity. Making and begetting ; The three-personal God ; Time and beyond time ; Good infection ; The obstinate toy soldiers ; Two notes ; Let's pretend ; Is Christianity hard or easy? ; Counting the cost ; Nice people or new men ; The new men. C.S. Lewis ; foreword by Douglas Gresham.ill. ;22 cm.Summary: Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian behavior, and Beyond personality, Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C.S.Contents: Book 1. Right and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe. The law of human nature ; Some objections ; The reality of the law ; What lies behind the law ; We have cause to be uneasy --Book 2. What Christians believe. The rival conceptions of God ; The invasion ; The shocking alternative ; The perfect penitent ; The practical conclusion --Book 3. Christian behaviour. The three parts of morality ; The "cardinal virtues" ; Social morality ; Morality and psychoanalysis ; Sexual morality ; Christian marriage ; Forgiveness ; The great sin ; Charity ; Hope ; Faith ; Faith (cont.) --Book 4. Beyond personality: or first steps in the doctrine of the trinity. Making and begetting ; The three-personal God ; Time and beyond time ; Good infection ; The obstinate toy soldiers ; Two notes ; Let's pretend ; Is Christianity hard or easy? ; Counting the cost ; Nice people or new men ; The new men. C.S. Lewis ; foreword by Douglas Gresham.ill. ;22 cm.Summary: Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian behavior, and Beyond personality, Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C.S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that "at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks the same voice."Contents: Book 1. Right and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe. The law of human nature ; Some objections ; The reality of the law ; What lies behind the law ; We have cause to be uneasy --Book 2. What Christians believe. The rival conceptions of God ; The invasion ; The shocking alternative ; The perfect penitent ; The practical conclusion --Book 3. Christian behaviour. The three parts of morality ; The "cardinal virtues" ; Social morality ; Morality and psychoanalysis ; Sexual morality ; Christian marriage ; Forgiveness ; The great sin ; Charity ; Hope ; Faith ; Faith (cont.) --Book 4. Beyond personality: or first steps in the doctrine of the trinity. Making and begetting ; The three-personal God ; Time and beyond time ; Good infection ; The obstinate toy soldiers ; Two notes ; Let's pretend ; Is Christianity hard or easy? ; Counting the cost ; Nice people or new men ; The new men. |
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