Mere Christianity
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: FEP missing
Condition remarks: Jacket: Fragile; Original red jacket, price-clipped, with chipping and loss at the foot of the front panel and spine. Edges rubbed and worn, with toning and spotting to the red field and soiling to the panels. The rear panel and flaps, which carry the Lewis advertisement list, are toned. Page Condition: Text block clean and complete, with general toning consistent with age. The front free endpaper is lacking. Markings: No ownership inscriptions, stamps, bookplates, or annotations. Binding: Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Boards are square and in good condition, with a faded spine, light rubbing at the corners and tips, and slight bumping. No splits to the joints, and the text block is secure in the binding.
One of the most persuasive and enduring defences of the Christian faith ever written, Mere Christianity presents the cumulative case for belief that C. S. Lewis — Oxford don, literary scholar, and one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Christian apologists — first delivered as a series of BBC radio broadcasts during the darkest years of World War II. Compiled and revised from three earlier works — Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality — this amplified edition builds a rigorous, intellectually honest argument for the rationality of faith, moving from the universal human sense of a moral law to the core tenets of Christian doctrine with disarming clarity and wit. Lewis writes not as a cloistered theologian but as a once-committed atheist who argues from the inside of doubt, and it is this quality of hard-won conviction that gives the prose its extraordinary power. His style is conversational yet precise, laced with memorable analogies that make abstract theology accessible without ever condescending to the reader. Widely regarded as a cornerstone of modern Christian thought, Mere Christianity has guided countless seekers, sceptics, and believers alike — and its central challenge, that one must decide what to make of the man who claimed to be the Son of God, remains as urgent and unanswerable as ever.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, Geoffrey Bles
Genre: Religion
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: FEP missing
Condition remarks: Jacket: Fragile; Original red jacket, price-clipped, with chipping and loss at the foot of the front panel and spine. Edges rubbed and worn, with toning and spotting to the red field and soiling to the panels. The rear panel and flaps, which carry the Lewis advertisement list, are toned. Page Condition: Text block clean and complete, with general toning consistent with age. The front free endpaper is lacking. Markings: No ownership inscriptions, stamps, bookplates, or annotations. Binding: Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Boards are square and in good condition, with a faded spine, light rubbing at the corners and tips, and slight bumping. No splits to the joints, and the text block is secure in the binding.
One of the most persuasive and enduring defences of the Christian faith ever written, Mere Christianity presents the cumulative case for belief that C. S. Lewis — Oxford don, literary scholar, and one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Christian apologists — first delivered as a series of BBC radio broadcasts during the darkest years of World War II. Compiled and revised from three earlier works — Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality — this amplified edition builds a rigorous, intellectually honest argument for the rationality of faith, moving from the universal human sense of a moral law to the core tenets of Christian doctrine with disarming clarity and wit. Lewis writes not as a cloistered theologian but as a once-committed atheist who argues from the inside of doubt, and it is this quality of hard-won conviction that gives the prose its extraordinary power. His style is conversational yet precise, laced with memorable analogies that make abstract theology accessible without ever condescending to the reader. Widely regarded as a cornerstone of modern Christian thought, Mere Christianity has guided countless seekers, sceptics, and believers alike — and its central challenge, that one must decide what to make of the man who claimed to be the Son of God, remains as urgent and unanswerable as ever.