Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic)

A must read for any Christian and anyone interested in Christianity! No other book I’ve read so far, lays down practicality and theology in the same way. Easy to understand and helpful in reigniting a passion for the Christian Faith.

Clive Staples Lewis, author of the Narnia books. First new this book in school, read to our class by the Headmaster, over 1200 pupils.The writing of C S Lewis seems so logical, as a teenager listening to the Headmaster, I was impressed and fascinated that the Headmaster was actually reading to our class.Hindsight tells me part of the professional input of his role, being in face to face contact with pupils in a classroom, “at the coal face”.A book I have dipped into since, and now reading again.I find myself having to re-read paragraphs to understand the logic of the writing.It is a fascinating perspective and discussion of how and why human beings have a sense of “right” and “wrong”, or do we?If human beings do have the inner knowledge of right and wrong, where does that come from.

I found this book to very enjoyable and easy to read, and each chapter was well explained. I found the first 'Book' within to be the weakest, and left me with a lot of questions that weren't answered, but the rest of the book was very good. It is worth remembering that it is an introduction and overview of the core Christian beliefs and values, there are chapters which feel slightly skimmed over, and more depth is required, but that would be beyond the scale of the book.I bought the hardback, and I'm not impressed with the quality. Removing the dust cover reveals a dull brown book that feels very cheap.Overall it loses out on the five star nature for the first portion of the book being weak, and the hardcover version isn't up to par.

For some reason while I read all the Narnia books as a child I’ve never read any of CS Lewis more ‘serious’ books. Mere Christianity is such an easy read. He doesn’t write as if he’s writing a PhD but rather like he’s sitting across the table to me just chatting. I suppose that makes sense given I believe this book was a compilation of talks he gave on BBC radio back in the day.I particularly enjoy the way he built his thesis of belief in Christianity from simple observations and develops his ideas from nothingness to a god, then from there to the Christian God and then to Christ and beyond to the impact of Christianity on the human nature. His analogies are really simple and effective.There are places near the end of the book that I felt the clarity got a little muddled in places but that’s probably just me. Thoroughly enjoyed the book and looking forward to reading the others.

This proved most helpful to me on my own spiritual journey giving me a wonderful perspective on life as a Christian.

my favourite book of all time, would strongly recommend to anybody interested in christianity. Beautifully written and well reasoned out

What an amazing book. Logical in his approach CS Lewis lays out in an orderly manner the essence of real Christianity not religiosity which we have come to associate with it. As an intellectual and former atheist, he argues powerfully each and every reason why Christianity is true both from a philosophical and from a biblical point of view. He first shows by reasonable argument why God must exist, considers the options of him provided to us globally and explains what moved him from unbelief to a strong belief in Christ. He then turns to Christianity and examines what is, again, with the same logical reasoning with some amazing insights and suprising conclusions. I highly recommend this book after reading it later in life wishing I had read it much earlier.

CS Lewis was regarded in his time as an intellectual giant but in this book he seems to be writing down to his audience. It is really a description of his own journey from atheist to Christian. But some of his views are almost objectional like for example that man is the natural head of the family because he is more dispassionate than a woman!