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C.S.Lewis.

Mere christianity


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C. S. Lewis
MERE CHRISTIANITY

Born in Ireland in 1898, C. S. Lewis was educated at Malvern College
for a year and then privately. He gained a triple first at Oxford and was a
Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College 1925-54. In 1954 he became Professor of
Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. He was an outstanding and
popular lecturer and had a lasting influence on his pupils.
C. S. Lewis was for many years an atheist, and described his conversion
in Surprised by Joy: 'In the Trinity term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted
that God was God ... perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all
England.' It was this experience that helped him to understand not only
apathy but active unwillingness to accept religion, and, as a Christian
writer, gifted with an exceptionally brilliant and logical mind and a lucid,
lively style, he was without peer. The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape
Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves and the posthumous Prayer:
Letters to Malcolm, are only a few of his best-selling works. He also wrote
some delightful books for children and some science fiction, besides many
works of literary criticism. His works are known to millions of people all
over the world in translation. He died on 22nd November, 1963, at his home
in Oxford.

Preface

The contents of this book were first given on the air, and then
published in three separate parts as Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian
Behaviour (1943) and Beyond Personality (1944). In the printed versions I
made a few additions to what I had said at the microphone, but otherwise
left the text much as it had been. A 'talk' on the radio should, I think, be
as like real talk as possible, and should not sound like an essay being read
aloud. In my talks I had therefore used all the contractions and