“When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.”
Mere Christianity (Preface)
Published 7/7/1952
Retro: July 1st – 10th
Highlights for the first ten days in July are: the release of his landmark nonfiction book, why chivalry is important today and the preface to his first claim to fame is written.
In the early 1950’s Lewis was seeing continual success from his writing. By the middle of 1952 he had experienced significant praise from his venture into children’s literature with two Narnia stories released and a third due out in a few months. But it
C.S. Lewis Himself (from Mere Christianity)
I’ve previous posted the following, but because of recently repeating my CSL Minutes about Mere Christianity and someone asking about hearing something from it I felt it was easiest to remind everyone about this piece I wrote by repeating it as well. By the way, I’ve taken the audio (which is in public domain) and …
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Mere Christianity History, Part 2 (CSLM-12)
LISTEN TO AUDIO/PODCAST VERSION Last time I gave you some background information about how Mere Christianity began as radio broadcasts and next became a series of three books. Would you believe there is a backstory to this backstory? C.S. Lewis never wanted to be on the radio before he was asked to do a …
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Mere Christianity History, Part 1 (CSLM-11)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis is frequently cited as a favorite book; but did you know that it all began on the radio?