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Summary: Provocative Apologetic
Review: As was stated in another review, this book is the first third of mere Christianity. That said, Lewis is at his best here. Truly the ability to write with any sort of lucidity and laconicity about Christ and Christianity is a most admirable trait. I don't like to recommend many books beyond the Bible for Christians, but this one that I will. Do read.
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Summary: A cool, well founded defeat of athiesm
Review: Personally I feel I should point out that a wise man would not buy this book -- not for spiritual reasons but for economic ones. MERE CHRISTIANITY opens with this book, THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY, and has two other books with it that provide a central thesis for the skeptics and believers alike. Don't buy this edition -- buy MERE CHRISTIANITYThat being said, this work gives in detail how there simply must be a God, and how athiesm simply does not hold water. It also talks about dualism, the belief of the Ying and Yang, where good and evil are contained and balance out one another. To all you Star Wars fans, this abolishes the Force and all its false theological implications. C. S. Lewis's cool clear logic, well founded arguements, and easy-to-read writing style make this one of the best of witnessing tools. This is a book anyone can read and understand, and stands as one of the great apologetics of the 20th Century. Mike London
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Summary: A cool, well founded defeat of athiesm
Review: Personally I feel I should point out that a wise man would not buy this book -- not for spiritual reasons but for economic ones. MERE CHRISTIANITY opens with this book, THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY, and has two other books with it that provide a central thesis for the skeptics and believers alike. Don't buy this edition -- buy MERE CHRISTIANITY That being said, this work gives in detail how there simply must be a God, and how athiesm simply does not hold water. It also talks about dualism, the belief of the Ying and Yang, where good and evil are contained and balance out one another. To all you Star Wars fans, this abolishes the Force and all its false theological implications. C. S. Lewis's cool clear logic, well founded arguements, and easy-to-read writing style make this one of the best of witnessing tools. This is a book anyone can read and understand, and stands as one of the great apologetics of the 20th Century. Mike London
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Summary: A RATIONALLY calm dismissal of atheism...
Review: Some of us want for others to believe in what we believe in. But we must not force it on them... How does a Christian, then, deal with the atheism of so many? How is a Christian to respond to a bitter atheist, like Sartre, or Shopenhauser? And, lastly, how shall a Christian present Christianity to an unChristian group, without there being derision, hostility, misapprehension? Almost too simply the answer is within THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY, by C.S. Lewis. You see, there is a trend among young persons not to "believe" in God, I feel. Atheism becomes a compound of arrogance and fear, as though belief in something higher than one's self is compromised by a fear in the inability to comprehend. A weirdness. People want to be God, and want what they want for them, not "what God wants" of them. Yet, if a Perfect Being knows what is best for you, is He/She/It not more likely in the right than your own misguided imperfect self? Just a thought... And, for them to consider religion at all in a serious light is mocking, insulting. Many without having read the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, or Christian mysticism, assume to know what Christianity is. They ask of the theist to explain himself. C.S. Lewis asks the atheist to explain himself on rational grounds. He argues thus: (1) Why, he wonders, does man have a sense of Right and Wrong, even though he does not properly follow it? (2) Why does anything exist to begin with? (3) Is not atheism too simplistic to be true? But Lewis has here gently offered Christianity in so rational a light, without anger. He himself was a atheist. And now he has changed. There will be no jumping to conclusions, or quoting from the Bible for "proof" of an argument. He will surpise you. Every atheist MUST read this work, as it will remind them that religion, whether for them true or not, is not easily dismissed as is commonly supposed. It has uncanny depth. C.S. Lewis has something to say, ladies and gentlemen. Every theist, every atheist, every deist must own this book.
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Summary: Good buy, unless you own "Mere Christianity"
Review: This book is just the first section of his famous book "Mere Christianity." It is a very good look at the discussion of the existence of God. He attacks the issue from the beginning of our self-awareness of morality. The only complaints I have are that 1) it is fairly short and 2) it is the first third of "Mere Christianity" (which I did not know until after the fact). However, the size is not necessarily a detriment, because you don't have to pay a lot for it, and you can buy it for friends who are interested in intelligent engagement in the subject.
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