C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity: The Perfect Penitent
For the past week, I have written a number of posts on Ken Ham. This week I am going back to C.S. Lewis. After pointing out that Answers in Genesis is not promo...
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C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity: The Shocking Alternative
Believing that there is a “good” God while acknowledging that this world is a screwed up place is quite a dilemma—how can both be true? The answer, Lewis points...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: The Invasion
A “Simple” Religion Have you ever met someone who complains that if Christianity really was true that it wouldn’t contain so many complicated, hard to understan...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: Rival Conceptions of God
We now come to “Book Two” of Mere Christianity. If you remember, “Book One” simply made the case that if there is a “Something/Someone” behind the natural unive...
C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity: We Have Cause to be Uneasy
In Book 1:5 of Mere Christianity, in his chapter entitled, “We Have Cause to be Uneasy,” Lewis wraps up the main argument of Book One. He begins by anticipating...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: The Moral Law
The very concept of some sort of “moral law” can be somewhat problematic, and can easily be twisted into a kind of fundamentalist legalism that sees all life an...
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis: The Moral Law… “To Hell With Your Standard!”
We now begin our adventure into C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. It seems that too many times well-meaning Christians immediately “go to the Bible” to try to conv...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”
C.S. Lewis: The Man Most Americans, when they hear the name “C.S. Lewis,” immediately think of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” from his children’s serie...
Book Review: N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Scripture”–Wrapping Things Up
Even though N.T. Wright has three more chapters to Surprised by Scripture, I believe I can adequately cover them in this post. “How to Engage Tomorrow’s World” ...
N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Scripture” Ch. 9: Our Politics are Too Small
Yes, it was only a matter of time…but you knew the subject of politics was due to come up at some point. After all, if the two things you never talk about in pu...