02450cam a22002411a 4500001000700000003000600007005001700013008004100030010001300071040007100084050002200155100004700177245019000224260003400414300002600448500020600474505086700680520043701547650004001984650001702024650004002041776012702081181614OCoLC20210120162223.0721213s1952    nyu           000 0 eng    a52014321  aDLCbengcDLCdBAKERdBTCTAdLF8dXBEdDTMdSORdITCdTXCAPdOCLCQ0 aBR123b.L484 19521 aLewis, C. S.q(Clive Staples),d1898-1963.10aMere Christianity :ba revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality /cby C.S. Lewis.  aNew York :bMacmillan,c1952.  axiv, 175 p. ;c21 cm.  a"The contents of this book were first given on the air, and then published in three separate parts as The case for Christianity (1943), Christian behaviour (1943), and Beyond personality (1945)"--Pref.0 aRight 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 -- What Christians believe. The rival conceptions of God ; The invasion ; The shocking alternative ; The perfect penitent ; The practical conclusion -- 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 -- 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.  aIn this one-volume edition, Mr. Lewis explains that his purpose is not to convert to any single denomination, but to prove that in the centre of each "there is a something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice." It is this central core of agreement that leads the author to speak of the nobility of a "mere" Christianity. 0aTheology, DoctrinalvPopular works. 0aApologetics. 0aChristian ethicsxAnglican authors.08iOnline version:aLewis, C.S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.tMere Christianity.dNew York : Macmillan, 1952w(OCoLC)646984381