Mere_Christianity

Mere Christianity Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis is composed of four books, Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe, What Christians Believe, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality: Or first Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity, each with several different chapters contained within them. The first book Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe addresses the phenomenon of human quarrelling and how it demonstrates an existence of a common moral standard. The point of a quarrel is to prove the other man wrong and oneself right. "Right" and "wrong" imply a standard. Both quarrelers must accept the same standard, at least in principle, or else there would be no point. Other themes the first book addresses are “Moral law is just a herd instinct", "Why blame people for being imperfect, if that's just our nature'", "What is behind the universe is it more like a mind than it is like anything else we know.", and "Christianity simply does not make any sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing." The second book What Christians Believe deals with ideas like the attitude of a Christian and the lewis, book, god, christianity, christian, infection, christians, reader, life, four, time, first, every, chapter, about, wrong, turn, themselves, self, point, morality, love, good, beyond, thing, says, salvation, right, people, part, one, need, just, jesus, find