Mere Christianity

Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis

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Lewis argues for the rational foundations of Christian belief in a series of wartime BBC broadcasts. Less a theology text than a clear-eyed meditation on the meaning of life and what it means to be good.

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Holiday calls Mere Christianity "definitely about faith and God and Christianity — which doesn't always appeal to me — but it's really about the meaning of life and why we should be good people." C.S. Lewis's etymology of "cardinal virtues" is drawn from this book.

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