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CS Lewis

A Christian apologetical book by the British author C. S. Lewis. It was adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944, originally published as three separate volumes.By Clives Stapleton Lewis, Professor at Cambridge University, England.

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  • Sep 18, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 10

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 10Episode 10: Book 3, Christian Marriage (Ch. 6)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 3: Christian BehaviourChapter 6. Christian Marriage The last chapter was mainly negative. I discussed what was wrong with the sexual impulse in man, but said very little about its right working-in other words, about Christian marriage. There are two reasons why I do not particularly want to deal with marriage. The first is that the Christian doctrines on

  • Sep 17, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 9

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 9Episode 9: Book 3, Sexual Morality (Ch. 5)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 3: Christian BehaviourChapter 5. Sexual Morality We must now consider Christian morality as regards sex, what Christians call the virtue of chastity. The Christian rule of chastity must not be confused with the social rule of “modesty” (in one sense of that word); i.e. propriety, or decency. The social rule of propriety lays down how much of the h

  • Sep 16, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast:&Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 8

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 8Episode 8: Book 3, Social Morality, Morality & PsychoAnalysis (Ch. 3 & 4)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 3: Christian BehaviourChapter 3. Social Morality The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had alw

  • Sep 15, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 8

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 7Episode 7: Book 3: Christian Behaviour; The 3 Parts of Morality, The Cardinal Virtues (ch. 1 & 2)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 3: Christian BehaviourChapter 1. The Three Parts Of Morality There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was “The sort of person who is always snooping round to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying

  • Sep 14, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 6

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 6Episode 6: Book 2: The Practical Conclusion(ch. 5)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 2: What Christian’s Believe.Chapter 5. The Practical Conclusion The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man. Now the Christian belief is that if we somehow share the humility and suffering of Christ we shall also share in His conquest for death and find

  • Sep 13, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 5

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 5Episode 5: Book 2: The Shocking Alternative & The Perfect Penitant (Chapters 3 & 4)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 2: What Christian’s Believe.Chapter 3. The Shocking Alternative Christians, then, believe that an evil power has made himself for the present the Prince of this World. And, of course, that raises problems. Is this state of affairs in accordance with God’s will or not? If it is, He is a strange God,

  • Sep 12, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 4

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 4Episode 4: Book 2: The Rival Conceptions of God, The Invasion(ch. 1 & 2)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 2: What Christian’s BelieveChapter 1. The Rival Conceptions Of God I have been asked to tell you what Christians believe, and I am going to begin by telling you one thing that Christians do not need to believe. If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. I

  • Sep 11, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 3

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 3Episode 3: Book 1: What Lies Behind the Law, We Have Cause To Be Uneasy (ch. 4 & 5)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 1 – The Law of Human Nature;Chapter 4. What Lies Behind the Law Let us sum up what we have reached so far. In the case of stones and trees and things of that sort, what we call the Laws of Nature may not be anything except a way of speaking. When you say that nature is governed by certain laws, this may only mean t

  • Sep 10, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 2

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 2Episode 2: Book 1: Some Objections, The Reality of the Law(ch. 2 & 3)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 1 – The Law of Human Nature;Chapter 2. Some Objections If they are the foundation, I had better stop to make that foundation firm before I go on. Some of the letters I have had show, that a good many people find it difficult to understand just what this Law of Human Nature, or Moral Law, or Rule of Decent Behaviour is. For examp

  • Sep 9, 2024 · length unknown

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Part 1

    Mere Christianity Podcast: Part 1Episode 1: Preface & Book 1, The Law of Human Nature (chapter 1)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere Christianity A Christian apologetical book by the British author C. S. Lewis. It was adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944, originally published as three separate volumes: Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944). The book consists of four parts: the first presents Lewis’s argu

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