Mere Christianity

Preface

Foreword

Book 1. Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe

1. The Law of Human Nature

2. Some Objections

3. The Reality of Law

4. What Lies Beneath the Law

5. We Have Cause to Be Uneasy

Book 2. What Christians Believe

1. The Rival Conceptions of God

2. The Invasion

3. The Shocking Alternative

4. The Perfect Penitent

5. The Practical Conclusion

Book 3. Christian Behaviour

1. The Three Parts of Morality

2. The 'Cardinal Virtue'

3. Social Morality

4. Morality and Psychoanalysis

5. Sexual Morality

6. Christian Marriage

7. Forgiveness

8. The Great Sin

9. Charity

10. Hope

11. Faith

12. Faith

Book 4. Beyond Personality: or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity

1. Making and Begetting

2. The Three-Personal God

3. Time and Beyond Time

4. Good Infection

5. The Obstinate Toy Soldiers

6. Two Notes

7. Let's Pretend

8. Is Christianity Hard or Easy?

9. Counting the Cost

10. Nice People or New Men

11. The New Men

Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Lewis and fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends. They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis's memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptised in the Church of Ireland, but fell away from his faith during adolescence. Lewis returned to Anglicanism at the age of 32, owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, and he became an "ordinary layman of the Church of England". Lewis's faith profoundly affected his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.

Lewis wrote more than 30 books which have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage, TV, radio, and cinema. His philosophical writings are widely cited by Christian apologists from many denominations.